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Our country has a long and tortured history with food pyramids. The original dietary schematic, unveiled in 1992, had a firm foundation of carbohydrates—the bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group. It ...

For at least 8,500 years, the community inside Texas’ Bracken Cave has swelled exponentially every spring as up to 10 million free-tailed bats fly 700 miles north from various smaller roosts in and ...

When a new dinosaur species is announced, we all probably share a similar image of how it was discovered: a team of sweaty paleontologists, meticulously removing layers of dirt to uncover a skeleton.

You’ve heard of the dark side of the moon, but NASA is also looking to explore a dark spot on the moon that it thinks may be a giant underground cave system. An image of the spot, known as the Marius ...

Vultures might not be the most charismatic birds, but they do perform an important job. As carrion-feeding scavengers, they dispose of decaying animal matter, even bones, right down their throats. As ...

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Bonobos have a well-earned reputation as the hippies of the great apes. Not only do they practice free love, using sex to bond socially, the more matriarchal species are also generally more ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Whether it’s gushing from a bumped nose or pooling atop a pricked finger, our blood is some hue of red. But red-bloodedness isn’t universal in ...