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Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

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In recent months, leaders in California and Santa Cruz County have spoken out in opposition to offshore drilling and seabed ...

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A study by researchers from the University of Exeter found that packaging bearing a distinct set of eyes can deter some gulls ...

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Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

The oceans truly contain countless mysteries.

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of ...