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Teenagers are being bombarded with highly targeted commercial content on TikTok, despite an EU law that prohibits profiling ...

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Two mass strandings involving hundreds of dolphins in Argentina probably happened because the pods were being hunted by orcas ...

Some Samoyeds adjust the pitch of their howls depending on the music being played, showing a form of vocal ability they might ...

Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...