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In a new study published in Gladius, a pair of researchers from the University of Salamanca and the University of Leon translated a quartzite funerary stele inscription written in Latin, which they ...

With roughly three million rats living in New York City, scientists set out to understand the daily lives—and speech patterns ...

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After years of searching worldwide, paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara found the extinction layer—and thousands of fossils—just ...