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Chickens recognize up to a hundred faces, solve math puzzles, and communicate with their chicks before hatching, yet most people still picture them as mindless birds pecking at dirt. What scientists ...

Hundreds of endangered Southern mountain yellow-legged frogs have been released in their home to bolster conservation efforts.

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Once again, fossils preserved in museum collections are revealing age-old secrets. Over sixty years ago, a British expedition into Tanzania netted a large assortment of synapsid fossils. These ...

Decades of industrial fishing have triggered something scientists never anticipated deep within the Atlantic cod's DNA, and ...