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A beloved Massachusetts candy bar was heading for extinction eight years ago. Now there's a bill that wants to designate it ...

A 250-million-year-old fossil from Africa reveals that early mammal ancestors laid eggs, offering insight into their survival ...

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Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

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