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A million-year-old skull discovered in China could rewrite the history of human evolution. A new analysis of the skull published in Science suggests that our species may have emerged half a million ...

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Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species. The illustrator Nikkolas Smith, surrounded by his original ...

Although the state bird of Illinois is the northern cardinal, in the 1800s it might have been the greater prairie chicken. The grouse or boomer, as it was known back then, was once the most numerous ...