In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

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Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

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Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...