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    Bison are essential to Yellowstone's ecosystem because their migration patterns can influence the landscape through how intensely they graze at grasslands.

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    Celebrate by watching cinema. Nov. 12-18 Native Cinema Showcase, the museum’s celebration of Indigenous films. This virtual program features 47 films representing 39 Native nations in 13 countries.

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    The Srivijaya Empire was known for its wealth and dominance of maritime trade routes.

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    Freddy Goodall started looking for the passageway after noticing a doorway—now hidden by a bookshelf—in an 1870 photograph.

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    Despite hanging out in Georgia for years, the spiders only emerged in massive numbers recently.

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    A carved wooden falcon sold at auction for just $101 in 2019 was once owned by doomed Tudor queen Anne Boleyn, a new analysis suggests.

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    A new study found that a National Health Service vaccination program started in the United Kingdom to prevent cervical cancer has reduced cases by 87 percent in women who received an HPV vaccine between the ages of 12 and 13.

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    The 17-pound spud could earn the top spot in the Guiness Book of World Records.

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    Americans who contract Covid-19 may soon have another treatment option for preventing the severe illness.

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    Was King George a decent fellow after all? Read this excerpt from 's new book, "The Last King of America," out today!

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    In a villa just outside of Pompeii, archaeologists have found a tiny room with sparse furnishings: three beds, a chamber pot and a wooden chest.

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    In the aftermath of the Civil War, more than four million newly freed Blacks sought fulfillment of the promises laid out in the U.S. Constitution.

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    In the annals of archaeology, it ranks as the most bizarre excavation team.

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    Gail Borden was a serial inventor, but the best idea he ever had came about as the direct result of a product that never took off.

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    New Zealand's long-tailed bats are about the size of a human thumb and weigh less than a tablespoon of sugar.

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    Here are five animal-like, or biomimetic, robots that researchers are already using to study — and, in one case, to control — the social life of real-life animals.

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    Chemical analysis of the glass identified minerals only found in extraterrestrial rocks and minerals, such as cubanite, troilite, pyrrhotite lath, or calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions.

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    “The statues are exceptionally well preserved, and you really get an impression of the people they depict—literally looking into the faces of the past is a unique experience.”

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    According to two decades of research by Yoshitaka Kamimura, an associate professor at Keio University in Japan, earwigs have elaborate sex rituals that include two penises.

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    All the works are billed as identical, making it impossible for consumers to know for certain if they own the "authentic" print.

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