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Panchito, a massive southern elephant seal, has made landing onto several beaches in the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit in ...

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A 12 foot, 1,000 pound great white shark is swimming unusually close to shore near Alabama in the United States, researchers have said. Female shark Ernst has travelled thousands of miles from Nova ...

About 66 million years ago, the fiery asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs - and much of life on Earth - left clues about ...

A winter storm headed to metro Detroit on Sunday could be boom-for-bust it when it comes to snow, according to the National ...

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The Clean Arctic Alliance, made up of 24 not-for-profit organisations, is calling on member states to ensure the IMO ...

Alemi says refugee trauma stems not only from war atrocities, but from cultural dislocation and the loss of language, status ...

Scientists on a research vessel off the California coast are marveling at a rare find — a waved albatross was spotted soaring over the Pacific.