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Meet FRED: The world's 1st-ever, nearly complete fossil...
The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community — but will it last?
'Tour de force' study may explain why trauma can lead to...
Stress can shape how memories are formed, a study in mice suggests. The findings could point the way to future treatments for PTSD...
Meteorite found in a drawer at university contains 700-million-year-old...
The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new...
World's biggest coral — so big it can be seen from space...
The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder...
Mass child sacrifices in 15th-century Mexico were a desperate...
The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god during...
Save $110 on these amazing stargazing binoculars at Amazon
Explore the skies for less with the Celestron SkyMaster Pro 20x80 at their lowest price since February — now $210 ahead of Black Friday
'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber...
Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor...
35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers...
Researchers have analyzed mummified remains pulled from Siberia's permafrost in 2020 and determined they belong to a 3-week-old saber-toothed...
