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A tablet said to date back to the first century BC could redefine ties between the Christian and Jewish religions.

Seven years since the discovery of the shy "heelwalkers", entomologists still have conflicting views about whether the stick insect is the creature's closest relative.

When and where was the sweet potato domesticated? Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) Photo Credit: luxes In South or Central America, probably around 2500 BC. But that's not all of the...

(Yale University) The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to depict the original coloration of fossilized birds and their ancestors, the dinosaurs.