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Located 240 miles off the coast of Yemen in the Arabian Sea, Socotra Island has earned UNESCO World Heritage status for its ...

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The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

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A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Yinxu - known as the last capital of the Shang - is one of China’s most important archaeological sites, famous for oracle bone inscriptions and monumental burials. The new pits add another layer: not ...