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The Mediterranean Sea still holds species unknown to science. One of them is Copula lucentia, a tiny jellyfish measuring just ...

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Armed with dozens of motion-sensing cameras, William Grooms spent this past summer documenting wildlife across Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. It was his first field season collecting ...

An alternative model in which the universe is 26.7 billion years old and needs neither dark matter nor dark energy has held ...

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There are at least 14 million insect species on Earth, and they play highly diverse roles in sustaining the natural world.

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It took around 480,000 trucks to haul away 4.8 million metric tons (5.3 million tons) of rubble across western Jamaica after ...

Between September and November, these baby birds, also known as fledglings, learn to fly and eventually leave the nest. You ...