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A recent study from Nature has uncovered unusual changes occurring deep within Earth, near the core. These shifts, detected ...

On August 31 at midnight, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province near the Pakistan border.

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Learn more about the breathtaking rapid wing speed of hummingbirds. An expert reveals how fast hummingbirds fly and flap their wings.

Dated to about 108 million years ago, the fossil preserves roughly 90 percent of the skeleton, including the first pachycephalosaur hand and stomach stones.

The team observed a pod of 10 orcas around two humpback whales. The whales were agitated, and the team initially thought the orcas were testing to see if either whale was weak. But when they reviewed ...