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Researchers documented the first spotted hyena in Egypt for 5,000 years after it was hit with a pickup truck for killing ...

Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

Watching the wildfires devastate a major U.S. city has many of us wondering: Could it happen here? Research shows our ...