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A Fossil Dream as Big as Texas

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Most people come to Ox Ranch — an 18,000-acre property outside Uvalde, Texas — for the thrill of hunting exotic animals in the...
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As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Holy Grail: Disaster-Proof Homes

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John duSaint, a retired software engineer, recently bought property near Bishop, Calif., in a rugged valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The area...
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Fossils Where They Don’t Belong? Maybe We Just Didn’t Look Hard Enough.

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In 1996, paleontologists made a startling discovery in northwestern Madagascar. Among dinosaur bones and sandy sediment there emerged a 167-million-year-old tiny jaw fragment...
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Everett Mendelsohn, Who Linked Science and Society, Dies at 91

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Everett I. Mendelsohn, a longtime Harvard professor who as a scholar of the history of science explored how the evolution of science has...
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Rare Dinosaur ‘Bonebed’ Is Discovered in a Maryland Park

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Fossils from animals including dinosaurs and stingrays more than 100 million years old were uncovered in a Maryland park in what experts said...
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They Lost Their Legs. Doctors and Health Care Giants Profited.

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Atherectomies and other procedures on Kelly Hanna’s veins and arteries started in February 2019. Her records do not always show which vessels Dr. Mustapha...
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The U.S. and China Are Restarting Climate Talks: Here’s Where Things Stand

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For nearly a year, talks between the planet’s two biggest polluters, China and the United States, have been suspended as the impacts of...
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Despite Aspartame Warning, Beverage Companies Likely to Stick With It

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About eight years ago, in response to customer concerns about possible health risks associated with the artificial sweetener aspartame, PepsiCo decided to remove...
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A Victorian Dinosaur Park Finds Its Way in the 21st Century

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Imagine: It’s 1854. The concept of evolution won’t be introduced for another five years or so. The word dinosaur is only about a...
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When Did Humans First Occupy the Americas? Ask the Sloth Bones.

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Of all the long-running disputes in archaeology, few roil scholars more than the question of when humans arrived in the Americas. For much...
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