Soda lakes might hold the key to the emergence of life on Earth. These unique environments could have concentrated the ...

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One of the world's leading scholars on bats brings her research and expertise to the public in an illustrated new book.

I believe in miracles too, in my way, reconciling rationalism and inklings of a preternatural reality by means of “radical ...

Quotable quotes are great to use, but you might want to check on who said what exactly. You may be surprised when you do.

Matthew Aldrich's novel The Natural Order has landed at Simon & Schuster after its film deal at Universal with Barry Jenkins and Glen Powell attached.

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

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Niles Eldredge is a curator emeritus at the Division of Paleontology, The American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Elisabeth Vrba’s meticulous studies of fossil and living mammals ...