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Giant Kangaroos That Lived During the Ice Age May Have Hopped—Despite Weighing Up to 550 Pounds

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Why Do These Tudor-Era Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I Look So Strikingly Similar?

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A Little Boy’s Library Book Was Due in 1989. Thirty-Six Years Later, He Realized His Parents Had Never Returned It

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The British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories

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Strange, Shovel-Tusked Elephants Puzzled Paleontologists, Until Experts Took a Closer Look at Their Teeth

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Frida Kahlo's Image Is on Paintings, Posters, Socks and Sanitary Pads. How Did Fridamania Come to Dominate Popular Culture?

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Positive Thinking Might Boost Your Immune System's Responses to Vaccines, New Research Suggests

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See the Stunning Artworks by the Winners and Featured Artists of This Boundary-Pushing National Portrait Competition

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A Smaller Version of the Las Vegas Sphere May Be Coming to the Washington, D.C. Area

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The Penguins That Thrive—and the Ones Left Behind—as Antarctica Warms

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How Historically Black Schools Create and Preserve Their Own History Through Amazing Artifacts, From Paintings to Marching Band Hats

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This Mysterious 407-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Represent a Previously Unknown Branch of Life

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Can You See the Faded Outline of a Hand? Archaeologists Say This 67,800-Year-Old Stencil May Be the World's Oldest Known Rock Art

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Get an Eyeful of These 15 Photos of Incredibly Cool Icicles

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United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'

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Rare Twin Mountain Gorillas Born in the Congo, Giving Hope to Those Working to Conserve the Endangered Animals

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See How These Wristwatches Reimagine Famous Masterpieces by Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Edgar Degas and Paul Klee

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‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Showcases the Minimalist Ingenuity of Shaker Furniture

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Archaeologists Say They've Finally Found a Long-Lost Basilica That Matches the Description the Architect Wrote 2,000 Years Ago

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This Detachable Robotic Hand Can Scurry Around and Grasp Objects Just Like Thing From the Addams Family

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