V's sheet metal, every little engineering decision, every button on the dashboard feels like a deliberate call based on years ...

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The age of dinosaurs began over 230 million years ago, ushering in an era of unparalleled diversity and dominance. While the ...

With brains that process information almost like a computer, the sea creatures already use tools and can be social. But they ...

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...

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Falcons are found worldwide, from the fast and slick hobbies to the large and powerful gyrfalcon of the Arctic tundra. In ...

Albatrosses are among the largest flying birds on Earth. Their incredible wingspans and specialized adaptations make them a perfect example of evolution at its finest ... Albatrosses have sturdy ...

A few yards away, a fling of brown birds called dunlins was probing the sand for crab eggs with their long black beaks and nervously ... a scientist who studies the evolution of viruses at the ...