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Phorusrhacids: Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs’ demise

Illustration of a terror bird and other animals that may have lived in what is now Antarctica at the same time C. Acosta Hospitaleche &

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Triassic ichthyosaur was super-predator that may have been largest ever animal

Artist’s impression of Stenopterygius quadriscissus, an ichthyosaur dotted zebra / Alamy Stock Photo PREHISTORIC Earth was a place of monsters. There were 2.5-metre-long millipedes, flying

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Ozempic, Wegovy and beyond: Could the next wave of weight-loss drugs end obesity?

There are TikTok hashtags with millions of followers, endless column inches over celebrities’ waistlines and streams of media coverage when trial results come out. It

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Why does weed give you the ‘munchies’? Here’s what the science says

Many people feel hungry after consuming cannabis SolStock/Getty Images If you have ever lit up a joint and craved a snack soon afterwards, you were

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We aren’t addicted to our phones and we don’t need a ‘digital detox’

IF I asked you to describe the relationship you have with your phone, what would you say? For many, I have a suspicion that the

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Is the woolly mammoth really on the brink of being resurrected?

Unlike extinct woolly mammoths, most edited elephants with mammoth-like traits would have no tusks, to get around ivory poaching QuangTrungArt/Shutterstock A company set up to

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The Tomb of the Mili Mongga review: Hunting for giants in Indonesia

Samuel Turvey set off for Indonesia in search of fossils and found all sorts of wonders – including the strange story of mythical wild men

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Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA

People in India have a wide range of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images The largest ever genome study of South

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Bizarre galaxy in the early universe died extremely young

The James Webb Space Telescope can capture detailed images of distant galaxies JADES Collaboration A strange galaxy in the early universe lived fast and died

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Chemical injection brings dying batteries back to life

New research aims to revive old batteries instead of discarding or recycling them Alyssa Pointer A chemical injection can restore spent lithium-ion batteries to working