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The harsh cold of Siberia has preserved the baby mammoth's remains almost perfectly Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 ...

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Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...