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Sea otters are themselves a top predator in the near-shore ecosystem, while wolves are an apex predator in the terrestrial ...

Peacock tail feathers infused with dye emit laser light under pulsed illumination.

Estádio Milton Corrêa, commonly known as Zerão (literally Big Zero, as in zero latitude), is a multi-purpose stadium in ...

Archaeologists at a site in Bronze Age Thailand found evidence of betel nut chewing from 4,000 years ago, and they did it by ...

One of the most famous artworks of the ancient world reads almost like a map of the Roman Empire's power.

The potato, it turns out, is not a “purebreed.” It’s the result of an ancient and accidental hybridization that occurred ...

Interestingly, the fossil was found in the same archaeological layer as a coin of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

Tucked away in storage at a Berlin museum, a modest wooden shrine had gone largely unstudied for decades. It looked ordinary ...

Aging has always been tied hand in hand with the passage of time: a slow and steady process. A little less energy here, a few ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...