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The satellite photo said to show victims of a massacre in Sudan turns out to depict livestock near a watering site.

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The first animals to inhabit the Earth may have been sea sponges, a new study by geochemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suggested. In their work, the researchers linked ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...