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In a discovery that spans millennia and continents, scientists found over 260 matching dinosaur tracks separated by the ...

You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia ...

Despite global cuts to mercury emissions, Arctic wildlife are accumulating toxic levels as century-old pollution rides ocean ...

Borders define nations, but some of them have stood the test of time for centuries, even millennia. In this video, we take a fascinating journey across the world to explore the oldest existing borders ...

Looking for something to do during the long summer days? The Great Irish Fossil Hunt challenges you to find and record the ...

I’m in Nice, France, this week attending the U.N. Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 ...

For ancient seafarers ... only to mysteriously disappear. Early maps became populated with islands floating in the oceans that, in the end, did not exist—as far as is known.

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic and the Saharan regions.

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