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Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...

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In southern Australia there can often be an impression that fertility traits are well understood, with clear benchmarks ...

The American singer Beyonce is the inspiration behind the naming of the horse fly Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. Because of ...

Dragonflies with dark wing patches have evolved greater heat tolerance, suggesting that these traits may help them adapt to rising global temperatures and avoid extinction. Temperature determines ...

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Director Gints Zilbalodis’s wordless environmental fable finds comedy in animal behaviours as an unlikely gang of castaway creatures fights to survive a flood.

But mother, it seemed, was not ready to let baby go. For 17 days in the summer of 2018, the orca swam with her offspring ...