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A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

Why are bald eagles called bald? Learn the history of the national emblem and how it recovered from near extinction.

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Analysis of Clovis stone points found among mammoth bones shows no evidence that the mammoth's were killed by hunters.

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