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Seventeen years ago photographer David Doubilet was enchanted by a Pacific reef. He recently returned to see if that ...

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Yosemite National Park boasts bobcats, black bears, spotted owls, and kingsnakes. The park is also home to an arachnid called the Yosemite Cave Pseudoscorpion. This animal, which resembles a scorpion, ...

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Fossils have shown that the earliest dinosaurs lived about 230 million years ago and were only about the size of today’s ...

Lemurs may be one of the cutest animals on Earth, but sadly they're also the most endangered. Threatened by illegal logging ...

Scientists sampled the blood of wild anteaters and tapirs in the Brazilian Pantanel—and made a few surprising finds about ...

Among those cells is a newly identified rare subtype of neuron potentially associated with the genetic risk of developing ...

Years of mining hallowed the ground beneath Maceió, Brazil. As the place sinks, those who’ve stayed confront the surreal ...