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A plant named Virectaria stellata has genetic traits foreign to its family, challenging the classic rules of plant ...

Researchers identified chemical traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads, meaning the artifacts bear the oldest known evidence of arrow poison.

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

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Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

Flooding caused by weeks of torrential rains in northern South Africa has forced the famed Kruger National Park to suspend ...

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These remote mountains in western Tanzania don't get the crowds of Gombe, which Jane Goodall made famous, or other sites in ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...