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What the animal world would look like if humans never existed
If humans never existed, lions, saber–tooth tigers, 330–pound beavers and house-sized armadillos would be walking around Texas right now. A new study from researchers at Aarhus... -
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Lost palace of Sparta possibly uncovered
An ancient Greek palace filled with cultic objects and clay tablets written in a lost script may be the long-lost palace of Mycenaean Sparta, one of the most famous...
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Climate
NASA: Rising sea levels more dangerous than thought
The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast... -
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Baby panda twin dies at National Zoo
One of giant panda Mei Xiang's twin cubs died Aug. 26, just five days after its birth, the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., reported. -
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'Panda swap' keeps newborn twins in mom's care
Zookeepers are playing a complicated game of "baby swap" with two new pink and fuzzy panda twins at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C
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Astronomy
Amazing 'red lightning' photographed from space
Like a giant jellyfish floating through the atmosphere, "red sprites" hover above thunderstorms in two new photographs snapped from space -
Amphibians
Mini frog, bat with freakish tongue found in Bolivia
A "robber frog" with beady, gold-rimmed eyes and a bizarre bat with a record-long tongue are among the menagerie of species discovered during an expedition in Bolivia -
Climate
California sinking faster than thought, aquifers could permanently shrink
California is sinking even faster than scientists had thought, new NASA satellite imagery shows. -
Plants
Denver's 'corpse flower' really does smell like rotting meat
From the front of the 3-hour line where thousands of people wait to sniff the first bloom of a giant corpse flower in Colorado, the stench is more like a whiff -
Insects
'Base jumping' spider soars from rainforest treetops
Like a base jumper leaping off a high precipice into the abyss below, a flat, brownish spider dives from the top of a tall tree and careens through the air, spiraling... -
Video
Space: Advertising’s next frontier?
Four4Four SciTech: Billboards in space; humanoid robot takes a stroll, Amazon’s working culture, glasses cure colorblindness -
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Confederate warship, weapons recovered from Georgia river
The armored husk of a Confederate warship is being raised out of the depths of a Georgia river, 150 years after the ship's crew deliberately sunk it -
Digging History
'Winged monster' rock art finally deciphered
The mystery surrounding the ancient rock paintings of Utah's Black Dragon Canyon has finally been solved. -
Digging History
'Sea monster' figurehead hauled from the Baltic Sea
A sea monster that lay hidden beneath the waves for five centuries has finally been recovered from the Baltic Sea -
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Ancient footprints may show dinosaur duo strolling along the beach
About 142 million years ago, two carnivorous dinosaurs wandered along a beach and left their large footprints behind in the sand, a new study finds
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