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Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?
A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.
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Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...