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An 'Endangered' Fish That Delayed a Dam's Construction for 6 Years Was Never Actually in Danger, Find Scientists The river ...

Melting ice in Yellowstone has revealed the fossilized remains of Whitebark pine trees that formed a part of a larger ancient ...

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was ...

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

Astronomy can often give us clues to the past that are otherwise lost to history. In one case, an Italian astronomer has proposed that a dramatic total solar eclipse triggered a religious crisis in ...

Hundreds of footprints from two dino species were excavated at a quarry in southeast England at the site of a well-known ...

As a scientist turned novelist, Dr. Katherine E.A. Korkidis successfully made the transition by crafting stories that showcased her passion for ...