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Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

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At that time, it was proposed as an early member of modern - also known as crown - birds that were evolutionarily nested within waterfowl. But modern birds were exceptionally rare before the end of ...

This article primarily introduces a time scale algorithm suitable for cesium clock configurations, aiming to fully exploit the advantages of cesium atomic clocks. It starts by analyzing the noise ...

New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and ... running an agricultural economics model backward in time over multiple decades, as well as forward, the ...

This 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit comes from the end of the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind ... And then the vomit was lost to the mists of time. Until last November, when an amateur fossil hunter, Peter Bennicke, split a piece of chalk ...