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India braces for more intense scorching as longest-ever heatwave spell hits the country, warns IMD chief
India's weather woes continue as the country grapples with the longest heatwave ever recorded. Whil…
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin just broke another record by paying $45M for this dinosaur fossil
Billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin just paid a record-breaking $44.6 million for a 150 million-yea…
Jaures Yip
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Scientists found an underground cave on the moon where astronauts could live and think there may be hundreds more
Scientists have discovered that the moon contains a vast underground cave on the side of a deep pit…
Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-J…
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Not hard, not soft, the earliest dino eggs may have been of a 'leathery' texture to protect against damage: study
In a recent revelation shaking the foundations of paleontology, researchers discovered that the ini…
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A 13-year-old found a 5-million-year-old fossil, and now there's a new species of walrus named in his honor
A 13-year-old saw a skull protruding from a boulder. The fossil belonged to an ancient toothless wa…
Jenny McGrath
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This dino that might've used its super smell to find food from kilometres away
Not particularly exceptional in many aspects, T. neglectus could only hear a fraction of human freq…
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A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its last meal
Locals found this first-of-a-kind Pleistocene wolf in Siberia. It's so mummified that scientists ho…
Jenny McGrath,Morgan McFall-J…
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Two climate protesters spray Stonehenge with orange paint and call for an end to burning fossil fuels
The protesters, who were arrested by local police, demanded the UK government phase out fossil fuel…
Catherine Boudreau
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Starfishes are just one big head and no limbs, say scientists
While the starfish may appear to boast numerous "arms" extending from its central body, recent rese…
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All tweet, some bite: Dinosaurs might have tweeted like modern day birds, study finds
Due to their ancient nature, there is limited evidence available regarding the sounds produced by d…
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Scientists want to pump carbon into a hole at the bottom of the ocean in a $60 million pilot project to help stop climate change
Offshore drilling could help fight climate change in the future. Instead of extracting oil from the…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This 400-million-year-old fossil is the oldest disease-causing fungus we've ever seen!
Scotland’s Natural History Museum has recently disclosed a groundbreaking find within its fossil ar…
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A one-of-a-kind Tyrannosaur fossil helps explain why these predators ruled the top of the food chain
The discovery of the remains of baby bird-like dinosaurs shows that young tyrannosaurs' diets evolv…
Alia Shoaib
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Massive 122-million-year-old sauropod unearthed in Spain likely a key puzzle piece in dinosaur evolution
Named the Garumbatitan morellensis, meaning "giant of the Garumba," this herbivorous quadruped cons…
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Climate crisis: Net zero goal still alive, says IEA
Globally, the rate at which people are installing solar panels and buying electric vehicles is "per…
PTI
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Ancient humans bred horses to make them more "rideable" 4,200 years ago, study suggests
In fact, the analysis of 475 ancient horse genomes revealed that, around 4,200 years ago, many dome…
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A leading carbon target arbiter has come into fire after ruling to allow carbon offsets — what's the big deal?
The Science Based Targets initiative, revered for its role in setting rigorous climate targets for …
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A man found a stegosaurus skeleton during a stroll on his Colorado property. He could make $6 million from it.
Jason Cooper discovered a stegosaurus on a birthday walk on his property in May 2022. The fossil is…
Joshua Zitser
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Discovery of 23,000-year-old footprint fossils reshape the history of early human migration into North America
Until recently, experts believed that early humans arrived in North America around 13,500 to 16,000…
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Scientists discovered the first fossil of its kind that shows 16-foot-long dinosaurs may have chirped like birds
Researchers discovered a throat bone from an older paleontology dig was actually a dinosaur's laryn…