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Like with humans, it is not uncommon in the natural world for a group of animals to split apart and form their own independent groups. But what a new study in the journal Science depicts in the ...

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of ...

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A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

Fossils from China reveal complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of early animal ...

Part of testing is pushing components way past their limits, so it's entirely possible that the team predicted a fiery end.

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This week in Woo! Science, the approach of Easter means marshmallow Peeps. So, why not take them to the physics lab? And to ...

Finally, the team carefully monitored the plant's production of five psychedelic tryptamines: DMT originally from plants; ...

If NASA's colossal new moon rocket, slated to launch with astronauts for the first time as soon as tomorrow, explodes on the ...

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