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New identity reflects the urgency of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the underlying cause of global crises.

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs.

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A rare Archaeopteryx fossil from Solnhofen, Germany, now at Chicago’s Field Museum, was scanned under ultraviolet light, ...

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Carlson's claim that "there's no evidence at all" for human evolution from single-cell organisms is a strong statement, and flies in the face of both the nature of scientific evidence and the vast ...