Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...

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We’re now in a period when people may hear strange, eerie calls in the dead of night. Plaintive sounds like a woman wailing can carry for long distances across quiet countryside, and chill people.

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Every species on earth reproduces. They do it in different ways, with different levels of success, but it’s the only strategy to ensure that the genes from one generation are passed to the next. This ...