In new footage from National Geographic’s cameras on board the NASA mission, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen talk about naming ...

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Of the roughly 18,000 new species discovered each year, a few have a certain star quality. In 2008, when an orange-haired, ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

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With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no mistaking the animal: It’s a hammerhead shark. Across the globe, there are more than nine hammerhead species, many of which are ...

Within 400 milliseconds, your brain and face begin responding to another person's smile, setting off a cascade that researchers are only beginning to understand.

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Summer in Music City means Indian-spice lattes and mooching in the sunshine at farmers’ markets, then natural wine and bluegrass jam sessions come nightfall.