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Explore the world's deadliest snakes, including the North America's Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, South America's ...

Australian scientists have begun a new major ice core drilling project in Antarctica. They hope to search through more than a million years of climate history for clues about our planet's past and ...

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Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...