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The Great Wall of China was built to defend the empire from enemy armies, but now it acts as a unifying symbol and a useful propaganda tool for the ruling Communist Party.

Did any of the southern continent's waddling birds look up to catch the sky show?

Can rabbits grow horns, as the legendary jackalope does?

The breakthrough will allow scientists to research long sought-after high energy neutrinos.

The mineral-rich asteroid has an estimated worth of $4.71 billion.

A new mechanism for dark matter creation could explain the current six-to-one ratio of dark matter to matter.

The biblical city where the Gospels tell of Jesus performing some of his most famous miracles is now a source of debate among archaeologists.

Sailors aboard a gas tanker spotted and filmed a rare encounter with a white sperm whale near Jamaica.

Some features of the omicron variant's genome hint that it may have evolved in rodents.

The rare creature has only been spotted roughly 100 times since its discovery in 1899.

Researchers discovered the fossils of two previously unknown armored marine worms named Excalibur and Shuriken.

Archaeologists in Russia have unearthed a Scythian-crafted silver plate depicting a fertility goddess.

A newly identified species of ichthyosaur had big teeth to attack large prey, possibly including other marine reptiles.

Historians have found tasty new evidence that the people who built Stonehenge supplemented their meat and dairy diets with nut and fruit "energy bars" made with animal fat.

Biological robots made from frog cells can self-replicate like no other organism, by moving around raw materials to build more of themselves.

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U.S. officials confirmed the first U.S. case of omicron in California.

Ancient footprints reveal a mysterious relative of humans may have lived at the same time and in the same area as the famous human ancestor "Lucy" in Tanzania.