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A new road being built led to the bones of two giant ground sloths being discovered in Wilmington, launching them into local ...

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Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

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