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Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the ...

Seventy-three million years ago, in Alaska's dark and frozen landscape, a group of small, rodent-like creatures was quietly ...

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Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

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Childbirth is often described as one of humanity’s defining biological challenges, but new research suggests the story is far ...