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Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

British photographer Mark Meth-Cohn had spent four days trekking through the Virunga mountains in Rwanda in search of gorillas when his patience and determination finally paid off.

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With J.R.R. Tolkien's high-fantasy world of Middle-earth being so far removed from our own, it's easy to get so caught up in what's on the map itself that we rarely even think about what's not on it.

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For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ecosystems with their adaptability, diverse behaviors, and interactions ...

Although the world is more connected than ever before, there are still some locations that are so remote they almost feel ...

Toronto’s Downsview Airport is being developed into an urban district housing more than 50,000 residents, and the runway is being turned into a 2-kilometer-long park.

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Did Nostradamus and Baba Vanga accurately predict the fortunes and tragedies visited upon the Earth's population in 2025?