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Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

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Ten years ago, Iroro Tanshi found something incredible in a cave in Nigeria: a colony of short-tailed roundleaf bats, a ...

Since the family of rodent-borne infections were identified in the 1950s, they have turned up all over the world.