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The Wild Ones contend with rapids, bees, and poachers’ snares to gather critical data on one of the world’s rarest tigers.

O rcas are easily recognized by their jet-black bodies punctuated with striking white markings, most notably the “eye patch” ...

On July 1, the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope reported the discovery of A11pl3Z, an ...

B urmese pythons ( Python bivittatus) don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the ...

A fter more than 40 years of exploration and excavations at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, researchers have finally unearthed a tomb belonging to one of its rulers. Even more significantly, the ...

Because it has natural language capabilities – powered by the same kind of machine learning that underpins ChatGPT – the ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...

Increasingly large numbers of people seem to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, or recorded lectures at faster speeds, but what ...

Why was the adder going for prey so much bigger than itself? Turns out, it was likely in need of a hefty meal. “The female ...

Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out ...