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A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

From tigers to baby monkeys, here are some of the new animals that arrived at zoos in Norfolk throughout 2025.

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Historic fossil finds have pointed towards North America and Europe as the waters of origin for large size in lamniform ...