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You are what you eat, it turns out—even if your last meal was 150 million years ago. While the grub itself may be long gone, a record of dinosaurs' favorite foods has been stowed away in their...
An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified a new fossil from central Germany, offering fresh insights into the early evolutionary history of archosauromorphs. of...

Los Angeles wildfires in figures

Ten people dead, 10,000 buildings destroyed, 180,000 people evacuated, $150 billion in damage. Here are the main figures showing the scale of the massive wildfires...

How Santa Ana winds fueled the deadly fires in Southern California

Powerful Santa Ana winds, near hurricane strength at times, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and pushed wildfires into several neighborhoods starting Jan....

Ancient mud reveals Australia’s burning history over the past 130,000 years—and a way forward in current fire crisis

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study...

900 firefighters battle ‘mega-fire’ in southern France

More than 900 firefighters backed by aircraft were deployed on Friday to battle a massive blaze in France's southern Gard region that burned 600...

Fire and rain: West to get more one-two extreme climate hits

The one-two punch of nasty wildfires followed by heavy downpours, triggering flooding and mudslides, will strike the U.S. West far more often in a...

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