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Salamanders like axolotls are champions of regeneration.

A white dwarf probably created a rare ‘second-generation’ planet.

Including ‘Loki the Sea Cucumber.’

Don’t expect a low-key desk job.

Bone fragments show this yak-like animal likely went extinct about 27,000 years ago.

The new research sheds more light on the evolutionary origins of friendship.

A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

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Y2K was in fact a big deal.

They’re segmented. They’ve got bristles. And sometimes, metallic jaws and detachable rear ends with eyes and a brain.

The recent photographs confirm that jaguars still travel along an important wildlife corridor.