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By Amarachi Orie, CNN A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish has led to the discovery of the oldest example of a…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephants that weighed as much as eight cars each roamed in what’s now northern Europe.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Vikings crossed the North Sea to reach Britain in the ninth century AD, they brought their dogs and horses with…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The lackluster explosion,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a NASA orbiter turned its camera to the Martian surface, the face of a bear seemed to be looking back. A camera aboard…

By Kristin Fisher, CNN Sometime this spring, NASA will make one of the biggest announcements in its history when it names the initial four-person…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Arctic was once a surprisingly warm place — and a haven for unusual creatures. About 56 million years ago, Earth…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A globe-trotting gecko has accidentally made the trip from Egypt to England after hitching a ride in a container of strawberries.…

By Yoonjung Seo and Heather Chen, CNN Five Russian men who fled the country after Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have been…

By Pierre Meilhan and Heather Chen, CNN Western countries will deliver more than 300 tanks to Ukraine, Kyiv’s ambassador to France said Friday.…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating…

By Laura Paddison, CNN A legal fight in Norway over snow crabs could end up having big implications for access to oil in the Arctic. This week…

By Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of ancient…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Rocket Lab, a prolific launch company that routinely blasts its towering Electron rockets out of New Zealand, conducted its…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth…

By Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It…

By Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of…