Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its jade-green shores reveals a nation with its eyes fixed on the road ahead.

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The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

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Scofield Of the 350 parrot species alive today, the heaviest is the kakapo, a flightless bird also native to New Zealand. But the extinct parrot, dubbed Heracles inexpectatus, crushes the kakapo ...

The paper documents the earliest known evidence of birds nesting in polar regions. Each spring, the Arctic comes alive with the sounds of chirping and the arrival of fluffy hatchlings, as millions of ...

This is the case with modern tegus in Florida. But until this point, there was no record of prehistoric tegus in North America. Bourque needed evidence to back up his revelation. Paleontologists ...

The discovery, found below the site of a former Shell distribution centre and 18th and 19th century farms, could help shed light on the region’s little-known prehistoric period.

He made bogey from there, flipping the bird (at his ball, the hole, just golf in general?) after his par effort died short. Lowry dropped to 2 over par, where he finished, one outside the cut line. A ...