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Orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days has a new baby

Tahlequah has a newborn girl, years after she made headlines for carrying her de...

2,600-year-old shipwreck is raised from waters off Spain

An ancient shipwreck that dates back to the 7th century B.C.E. has been removed ...

What to know about the winter solstice, 2024's shortest...

The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on Saturday, Dec...

Why fish, birds and other animals yawn too, according t...

Humans aren't alone when it comes to yawning — all vertebrates do it. But why? A...

Americans coexisted with 4-ton sloths for millennia, re...

Early Americans may have spent millennia sharing prehistoric savannas and wetlan...

"Murder hornets" eradicated in the U.S., agriculture of...

Giant hornets, dubbed "murder hornets," have been eradicated in the U.S., five y...

Coal use hitting record in 2024, which is likely hottes...

World coal use is set to reach an all-time high in 2024, the International Energ...

Bronze-Age Britons were cannibalized after massacre, re...

Researchers determined that dozens of men, women and children were violently kil...

Wisdom, the world's oldest-known wild bird, lays an egg...

Wisdom the Laysan albatross was first tagged by researchers in 1956. Since then,...

NASA shows off image of U.S. military's abandoned "city...

Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. militar...

Honolulu hopes to identify long-unclaimed bodies with a...

Forensic pathologists hope advanced DNA testing technology will enable them to a...

Dishing up space food

At the Johnson Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, NASA scientists develop...

Emperor penguin found on Australian beach released at s...

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was rel...

Iceland volcano flares in region's 7th eruption in one ...

A volcano erupted in southern Iceland, near the town of Grindavík and the Blue L...

Iceland volcano flares marking region's 7th eruption in...

A volcano erupted in southern Iceland, near the town of Grindavík and the Blue L...

How collecting pine cones helps renew Oregon forests af...

Conservationists are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service and logging compani...

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