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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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.

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