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A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a key gene ...

A brief reviewWritten by David Baker, who earned a master's degree in history at the University of Calgary and the world's ...

Hundreds of millennia before our own species left Africa, an archaic hominin related to Homo erectus embarked on its own ...

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

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A well-preserved fossil of a 165-million-year-old mammal ancestor from China with hind limbs like a platypus and a broad, ...

Q. I grew up (many years ago) on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi and was always excited when we saw porpoises in the water off the ...

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Learn more about this otter-like animal that was likely a top mammal predator during the Jurassic Period.