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Conservationists said the claim was not supported by the agency's own evidence. In December, the Fish and Wildlife Service decided that the owl in the north should indeed be classified as endangered and not threatened. However, the agency…

When a handful of new coronavirus cases emerged in a province around Beijing earlier this month - apparently spread at a wedding reception in the village - the Chinese authorities took action.They locked down two cities with more than 17…

Other experts said this scenario is not only plausible, it is likely."I fully agree with the overall intellectual construct of the paper," said Shane Crotty, a virologist at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in San Diego.If the vaccines…

In the early 20th century, a railway line was opened in the mountains west of Tokyo. In 1920, for unusual reasons, the train crews found they were stopping traffic. The railroad tracks that ran through dense forest were overwhelmed by…

WASHINGTON - President Trump's Twitter megaphone may be silenced, but his administration's disinformation continues to flow.David Legates, a climate denier appointed by the Trump administration last year to oversee climate change science,…

The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula - officially Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus - was a capricious, flammable first-century populist, perhaps wrongly remembered as the most tyrannical ruler of the empire. As Suetonius, Michael Wolff…

The brown tree snake's movements seemed strange, but the time-lapse footage didn't make it entirely obvious whether the movements marked a new way of moving. In 2019, Dr. Seibert returned to Guam to repeat the experiment, this time with a…

The task force has found several types of screening tests effective, but the ones most commonly used for those at moderate risk are colonoscopy at a recommended 10-year interval, or FIT annually.A more recent entry, a home test sold under…

Above the water, September seems like any other month in the shipyards of Charleston, Oregon, with yachts and wooden fishing vessels bobbing gently against a backdrop of emerald trees. But beneath the surface, especially beneath the boats…

Scans of a subset of roughly hundreds of vertebrae - some the size of grapefruit - showed the shark had died by the age of 46. The researchers estimated the Meg's life expectancy to be 88 to 100 years, suggesting that their sample was…