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Spielberg's new UFO thriller 'Disclosure Day' drops its first trailer. Emily Blunt goes eerily silent on live TV. We've got the reactions, cast, and release date.

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

In ancient ecosystems, small birds darted and called above fern canopies and along lake margins. Their fossils now rest encased in stone, awaiting study with modern analytical methods. A recent ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

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Hope still remains that Imperial woodpecker has not yet gone extinct in Mexico, but a decades long hunt remains tantalisingly without success. (Audubon Society) For the dedicated ornithologist, there ...