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Seals Are Seemingly Vanishing Off the Dutch Coast. These Scientists Are Trying to Get to the Bottom of the Mysterious Disappearances

Afghanistan Was a Crossroad of the Ancient World, Where Hellenistic Culture Blended With Buddhist Influences

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator Is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

Historians Thought This Rare Renaissance Portrait by One of the First Famous Female Artists Was Lost to History—Until It Surfaced in North Carolina

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Archaeologists Unearth a Reusable School Slate Still Covered in the Scribbles of Victorian Children

An Asian Elephant Was Born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for the First Time in Almost 25 Years. Now, You Can Help Pick Her Name

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Fervent Fans of 'Moby-Dick' Flock to This Massachusetts City to Read the Book Cover to Cover

Read Love Letters From Royals and Romantics Across 500 Years of British History

Snow Drought Hits the Western United States, Worrying Experts About the Region's Water Supply

A New App Can Match Footprints to the Dinosaurs That Made Them

Megalodons Went Extinct Millions of Years Ago. The Prehistoric Predator Could Become Maryland's Official State Shark

This Rare Roman Figurine of a Cat With Its Paws Atop a Severed Head Is One of Britain's Newest Treasures

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Artificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant

A Fossil Trove in China Provides a Rare Window Into a Mass Extinction Event That Happened More Than 500 Million Years Ago

What Are the Best TV Shows About the American Revolution? A Historian Outlines Five of His Favorites

Small, Stubby-Armed Dinosaurs Have Confounded Paleontologists. Are Answers Finally Within Reach?

'Rising Star' of a Prominent Yellowstone Wolf Pack Was Illegally Killed, Sparking a Poaching Investigation

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When Vampire Bats Become Close Friends, They Start ‘Talking’ Like Each Other

Researchers Say This Paleolithic Teenage Boy Died a Slow Death After a Bear Mauled Him

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Renaissance Readers Left Chemical Clues Inside These Medical Manuals. Were They Using Human Feces and Tortoise Shells to Treat Illnesses?

Dinosaur National Monument Construction Work Turns Up New Fossils, Leading to the First Excavation at One Site in More Than a Century

These 15 Delightful Photos of Denmark Will Have You Booking Your Flights to Scandinavia This Weekend

The Earliest Known Vertebrates Had Four Eyes—and They Worked a Lot Like Ours Do, New Research Suggests

Dozens of Items That Once Belonged to Nelson Mandela Can Head to Auction, South African Court Rules

Beach Erosion Reveals Fragments of a 136-Year-Old Shipwreck That Sank in New Jersey's 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'

This Groundbreaking New Showcase of Nearly 60 Works Is the Biggest-Ever Exhibition of LGBTQ+ African Art

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