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A rare event occurred in Southeast England, where a wild-born red-billed chough took to the skies for the first time in over 200 years. The young chough took flight from a wild nest in Dover. This is ...

Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago, scientists have learned more about ...

Juan Negro crouched in the shadows just outside a cave, wearing his headlamp. For a brief moment, he wasn’t an ornithologist at the Spanish National Research Council’s Doñana Biological Station in ...

It was the dead of night when a team of Spanish scientists snuck into a pitch-black cave along Spain’s Iberian peninsula. Adorned with headlamps, this team of researchers moved stealthily beneath a ...