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The Type D orcas, which some scientists believe may be a completely distinct species, were found st…

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Super Typhoon Haiyan - which is being called one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever - has slam…

Orcas near the Iberian coast sank a third boat earlier this month. A biologist thinks these attacks…

White Gladis, the orca who's taught other killer whales to attack and sink boats, was likely pregna…

On July 8, a giant school of Northern Anchovies invaded La Jolla, California. The school of fish wa…

"It had been tucked away for so long," Kindra Crick, Crick's 36-year-old granddaughter, told LiveSc…

The lithosphere varies in thickness across the planet, and does not always reach depths deep enough…

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Researchers at the site of the catastrophic 1986 nuclear explosion in Ukraine have detected a spike…

The rare tattoo was found on the foot of a person buried near a medieval monastery in Sudan, archeo…

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