Mark Newton/iNaturalist, CC BY-NCScorpions are among the most ancient of land animals. Fossils indicate they were roaming the Earth more than 400 million years ago. For perspective, the non-bird dinosaurs…

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Giant ‘kings of apes’ once roamed southern China. We solved the mystery of their extinction

Artist's impression of a group of Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in southern China. Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University)Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But…

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Ian MoffatRock art is one of the most intriguing records of the human past – it directly represents how our ancestors viewed their world. This provides a fundamentally different perspective…

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Why is the universe ripping itself apart? A new study of exploding stars shows dark energy may be more complicated than we thought

The remains of a Type Ia supernova – a kind of exploding star used to measure distances in the universe. NASA / CXC / U.Texas, CC BYWhat is the universe…

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