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Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

As interest in dual citizenship surges in today’s fickle state of geopolitics, more people are exploring second ...

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The Chicago Bears running back opened up to PEOPLE exclusively about his potential ancestral connection to the pop superstar ahead of the 2026 Super Bowl ...

When people think of abolitionists, they probably think of well-known figures like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman or William Lloyd Garrison. But Paul N.D. Thornell — great-great-grandson of ...

The Harvard professor and host of PBS' Finding Your Roots talks country music and the blues, the joys of discovery, and the dangers of hate ...

ELLIS COUNTY — The Ellis County Conservation District has selected Lang Cattle & Grain LLC for the 2025 Conservation Award.

A detective investigating a murder stumbled on something else — a “case within a case,” he called it — involving a long-lost ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

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