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Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganizing soils and ...

Our planet teems with an estimated 8.7 million species, yet a heartbreaking number of them exist in such small populations that most people will never see them outside of a photograph. These are ...

In the shadow of South Australia's largest mountain range beneath the outback soil lies a fossil record that reveals a rich history of life on Earth. Fossils found at Nilpena Ediacara National Park ...

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Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By ...

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