A cave in the Dominican Republic concealed thousands of years worth of animal bones that had been turned into nests by prehistoric bees.

Escalating activity along a fault line in the Sea of Marmara is moving closer to Istanbul, seismologists warn.

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Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared.

Blooms of yellowish-brown seaweed along the Equator are breaking records and defiling beaches, while a centuries-old patch farther north is disappearing.

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New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.

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The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in place roughly 10,000 years ago, a new study suggests.

A pod of orcas in the Gulf of California has repeatedly hunted juvenile white sharks to feast on their livers.