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Harpoons crafted from the bones of humpback and southern right whales show Indigenous groups in what is now Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago.

The discovery, which included 118 whale bones and crafted artifacts, reveal that prehistoric…

Far out in the South China Sea, a massive underwater sinkhole plunges nearly 1,000 feet straight down. It’s called the Dragon Hole, and it’s a strange, silent world where oxygen vanishes and sunlight never reaches. Yet somehow, deep…

Colossal monsters lurk in the centers of all galaxies. Known as supermassive black holes, these gravitational beasts can have millions to billions of times more mass than the sun.

For decades, astronomers have wondered where these behemoths came…

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as though the Danish territory’s precious metals…

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ice, dubbed Ih, with the h referring to…

Such is the vastness of Antarctica, in addition to the relatively little amount of time humans spend there, we perhaps shouldn’t be too surprised to learn there are many unknowns about the Earth’s southernmost continent.

One such mystery…

Sci-fi loves a multiverse. Everyone from Rick and Morty to Spider-Man has stepped through a portal and met their alter egos. My personal favorite use of this trope comes from the sitcom Community, where a simple die roll splits our…

Dolphins with more close friends age more slowly

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An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1,190 more across Mexico and South America, and now the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention is…