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Zhang You of the Entomological Society of China took first place with an image of a rice weevil—an agricultural pest—on a ...

A few days before "Still Life With Guitar" was supposed to go on display in Granada, staffers discovered the piece had ...

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature no longer considers the marine creatures endangered and has instead ...

The sidewalk imprint, dubbed “Splatatouille,” was thought to have been left by an unfortunate brown rat that met its end ...

After multiple dusky sharks killed a swimmer off Israel’s coast this year, scientists investigated what might have triggered ...

The couple hadn't known how the artifact made its way to their property in New Orleans. But after their story went viral, a ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ...