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The Medicine Hat Interpretive Centre is taking a long look at the distant past with its latest announced program: Prairie Forests, Past and Present. “Have you ever wondered where coal comes from, and ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...

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The sense of smell is vital for animals, as it helps them find food, protect themselves from predators and interact socially. An international research team led by Dr. Quentin Martinez and Dr. Eli ...

The New England Free Jacks will play against the Houston SaberCats in the Major League Rugby Finals. The game will take place at Centerville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Saturday at 2 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Across the world, eerie "death pits" have entombed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found a mummified saber-toothed cat in Russian permafrost. Despite being at least 35,000 years old, the cub retained ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. But today’s researchers can only hope to find fossils that will shed more light on the existence of these ...

A new analysis suggests saber teeth were highly specialized for puncturing prey, ultimately at the cost of durability. Saber teeth in predators evolved many times. Did it lead to their extinction? In ...