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This idea fell out of favors in the late 1990s with the discovery of dark matter and what scientists at the time believed was proof of the accelerating expansion of the universe. The Big Crunch theory ...

The migrations of sperm whales are impressive, and so, too, are the travels of their teeth. In 2018, a team of archaeologists discovered a fragment of a sperm whale tooth at Valencina, a Copper Age ...

History is filled with tales from around the world proving that the loyalty of dogs shows no bounds. In the ancient Americas, the unbreakable bond shared between humans and dogs solidified with the ...

In the lush Southern Appalachian forests, you're likely to cross paths with one of Tennessee’s roughly 50 salamander species, many of which belong to the family Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders ...

A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine. Her current work also appears on ...

The team sequenced the genomes of 151 Physalia samples and compared them with thousands of images submitted by citizen scientists on iNaturalist.org. The result: four genetically distinct species — ...