Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...

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The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...

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Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

The deposed Scottish queen wrote the four-page missive to her brother-in-law just a few hours before her execution in 1587 ...

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While female green hermit hummingbirds have curved bills, males’ straighter mouthparts are built for stabbing one another, a ...