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The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior ...

India, Jan. 16 -- January is the month of New Year's resolutions. Even if you don't have a long checklist to get through in ...

Bubble net feeding is spreading into humpback whale populations in the Canadian Pacific and researchers think it might have been introduced by whales from other areas, according to a new study ...

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The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

Extreme humidity and triple-digit temperatures are affecting around 250 million people across the United States. Here's the science behind the heat dome that’s stifling the nation. A sunbather rests ...

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of ...