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New research led by University of Bristol scientists sheds light on how lepidosaurs — the most diverse clade of tetrapods,...

Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived during the Middle Devonian epoch around 390 million years...

When baby Atlantic puffins in Iceland venture out of the cliffside burrows where they had hatched, they look for the...

artificial intelligence: A type of knowledge-based decision-making exhibited by machines or computers. The term also refers to the field of...

Dark comets are small bodies with no detected coma that have significant accelerations explainable by outgassing of volatiles, analogous to...

Books contemplating the human experience and some of humankind’s greatest challenges were among the Science News staff’s favorite reads this...

Vampire bats live on a strictly blood-based diet. So strict, in fact, that they seem to process their food more...

average: (in science) A term for the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of a group of numbers that is...

agriculture: The growth of plants, animals or fungi for human needs, including food, fuel, chemicals and medicine. atmosphere: The envelope...

3-D: Short for three-dimensional. This term is an adjective for something that has features that can be described in three...