Marine otters live on rocky coasts with extreme swells and strong winds, with their dens built into crevices and caves.

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Researchers have detected a giant tail of gas leaking from an exoplanet near Earth. The giant structure, which is up to ...

New World screwworm was largely eradicated from the U.S. and Central America in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. But the ...

Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) assigned the 508 young adults, who were all keen to give up vaping, to four ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where ...