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For decades, paleontologists have tried to explain what they assumed was a 230-million-year-old scene of mass death.

As the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum undergoes a major redesign, its leaders hope it can do more to engage the public and educate visitors about the realities of climate change.

Zoos, bird rescue groups and other animal facilities are grappling with a “radically different” outbreak of avian influenza.

Canadian researchers are alarmed by the sudden death of an endangered sturgeon. In the early days of September, Nikolaus Gantner and two colleagues hurried out in a jet boat against strong currents to investigate the first spindly, armor-clad cadaver discovered in the swift-moving Nechako River.

After 230 pilot whales were stranded on the western coast of Tasmania, a scramble started almost immediately to save as many as possible.