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Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...

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As Ebola cases mount in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, experts explain what causes the disease—and the risk this ...

Study finds 1,600 primates listed for sale on US social media, exposing illegal pet trade and calling for stronger laws and ...

Somewhere on the dark, silty floor of the central Pacific, more than four kilometers below the surface, a tiny crustacean was ...

Most people would never see a fish parasite and think “jellyfish.” But scientists now know that some of the strangest ...