One of the problems with the study of consciousness is the lack of a universally accepted operational definition. Scientist René Descartes famously proposed the idea of cogito ergo sum (“I think, ...

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Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the ...

Unlike most snakes, Dumeril’s boas give live birth, protecting embryos internally until fully developed neonates emerge.