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Science & Nature New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in...

Science & Nature Warmth has everything to do with when trees start budding and leaves begin opening. DepositPhotosUnseasonably early blooms can wreak havoc on...

Science & Nature Diverse branching forms have evolved multiple times across the tree of life to facilitate resource acquisition and exchange with the environment. The...

Science & Nature Protoanisolarva juarezi, a new genus and species described from a 247-million-year-old larva, shares key features with Anisopodidae, a small cosmopolitan family...

Science & Nature Paleontologists from Uppsala University and the University of Oslo have found the 250-million-year-old fossilized ichthyosaur remains in the Vikinghøgda Formation on...

Science & Nature Palmichnium gallowayi, a 460-million-year-old fossil trackway of a sea scorpion, from upstate New York, is one of the earliest signs of...