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Ancient whale-bone harpoons found in Brazil reveal Indigenous whale hunting 5,000 years ago, long before the use of metal ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

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A wild conspiracy theory has spread on social media during the deadly US winter storm, with hundreds claiming the government ...

As the Chinese New Year approaches, the annual Yuyuan Lantern Festival kicked off in Shanghai on Monday and, for the first ...

“Look how bro glazed it,” said Alison Luchs, National Gallery of Art’s deputy head of sculpture, pointing to a 16th-century ...

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At Galleri Urbane, Drea Cofield and Erika Jaeggli explore how humans have depicted themselves and their world, from ancient ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...