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A bird's-eye-view of South America's Yucatán Peninsula has revealed a massive 4,000-year-old fishery in Belize's largest ...

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When they're wearing salmon hats and terrorizing yachts, it's easy, perhaps, to forget that orcas are the most fearsome large ...

A deposit of high-quality gold ore containing around 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) of the precious metal has been ...

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Ancient footprints reveal that a thriving landscape 1.5 million years ago in what is now Kenya was able to accommodate two ...

NASA created this 8-hour-long looping video from the November 2022 launch of Artemis 1 to the Moon. The holiday video is a ...

Drinking raw milk is a dangerous choice made all the more risky by the recent outbreak of bird flu in the United States.

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Really, the only metals judged to be worthy of returning to Earth are the platinum-group metals (PGMs), which are known for ...

A 2,200-year-old ceramic drinking vessel has confirmed what archaeologists have long suspected: some ancient Egyptians were ...