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A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million ...

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

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The world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

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Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

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The world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of ...