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The explosion of animal life in Earth's oceans half a billion years ago during and after the Cambrian Period is commonly ...

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This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization, and is part of a special project on Food and Power in the West.

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A research team led by Prof. HUANG Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has ...

Learn why fossil specimens once branded as marine reptiles are now being recognized as coelacanths that lived in shallow seas during the late Triassic.

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Can animals help students better manage their own feelings? The leader of one popular Florida field trip destination says yes. The Alaqua Animal Refuge, which stretches across 100 acres in Florida’s ...