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Learn more about the 115-million-year-old dinosaur prints clean-up crews found after the recent Texas flooding.

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Learn how isotope analysis helped illuminate a hidden period of history for Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

Learn how modern humans adapted to the Americas, possibly thanks to a Denisovan gene.

Learn more about the reclassification of the tallest terrestrial animal, including its implications for giraffe conservation.

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Learn how the Parker Solar Probe's passage through the Sun's outer atmosphere has shed light on the process that creates ...

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