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The sting from a geographic cone snail is potent enough to kill a human. Learn all about this fascinating predatory snail.

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On two-day intervals, Madzibaba Simba (38) and his wife trek for over an hour into the Eastern part of the Cleveland wetland, which sits on the edge of Mabvuku in Harare, to access a basic human right ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...