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A global review of tiny sea animals called foraminifera has identified 57 new living species, including three from NZ waters.

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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 ...