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Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

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This photograph, captured by Slovak photographer Roman Balaz, won the silver prize in the category for Amphibian and Reptile Behavior in the World Nature Photographer of the Year competition. The ...

Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, ...