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Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.

A 70-foot-long Apatosaurus skeleton, named Vulcan, recently became the biggest dinosaur fossil ever sold when it was acquired for around $6.4 million at an auction in France. The sizable remains weigh more than 22 tons.

If future AI models are trained on AI-generated content, they could end up producing more bias and nonsense, researchers caution.

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The “King Solomon” pendant likely belonged to a cavalry soldier stationed at the ancient Byzantine city of Hadrianopolis.

Tyrannosaurus rex towered over many other dinosaurs. But the biggest of the king of the dinos may have been even heftier than fossils hint. Only around 80 fossil T. rex skeletons have been found so far, and not all of…

Scientists in Australia say they’ve cracked a key hurdle facing the the development of scalable quantum computers and practical quantum data storage.

Every single Atlantic hurricane in 2024 had wind speeds supercharged by warming seas. One even jumped two categories of intensity.

A man’s attempt at self-medicating with shrooms resulted in a trip to the intensive care unit.

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking.