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Evidence from ethnohistory and recent archaeology indicates that Easter Island (Rapanui) had a politically decentralized structure, organized into small kin-based communities that operated with a degree…
The wolf, the wild ancestor of dogs, stands as the sole large carnivore domesticated by humans. Nonetheless, the exact nature of this domestication remains a topic…
A collaborative team of paleontologists from New Zealand and Australia has identified a new, extinct species of Shelduck from Holocene fossil bone deposits located in the…
Leaf-toed Gecko from Rabida Island Rory Stansbury/Island Conservation A small gecko has been rediscovered on Rabida Island in the Galapagos, previously believed to have been eradicated…
Solnhofen Archipelago refers to a collection of islands that thrived during the late Jurassic era in present-day Bavaria, Germany. Life expressions of Sphenodraco scandentis in the…
Alaska’s coastal regions were on alert for a tsunami Wednesday following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit the Ariuya Islands, according to officials. The earthquake occurred…
Thousands of years ago Mehd Halaouate, birdingindonesia.com Dating back either 12 or 800 years ago, wild wallabies were caught and transported by canoe to nearby islands…
New genus and species of Titanosaurus have been identified from fossilized sites found in the Hayeg Basin, Transylvania, western Romania. The artist's impression of the lithotrothian…
Coral polyps, tiny organisms, cluster together to form colonies that create vast coral reefs. The researchers describe the giant coral as primarily brown with pops of…
Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer is considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detention camps” in the Falkland Islands.Musk deleted the post…
The Tanimbar Islands are one of the main island groups of Wallacea (a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated from the Asian and Australian continental shelves…
A team of scientists from the Swedish Museum of Natural History has described a new species of nightjar that lives in the tropical forests of Timor…
A site on the northernmost tip of the Shetland Islands has become the UK’s first licensed spaceport for vertical rocket launches.The Saxavod spaceport, located on the…