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A professor at Idaho State University, he said he didn’t “believe” the creature exists. He said he concluded it exists.

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The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

His willingness to bring scientific rigor to Sasquatch studies earned him the gratitude of enthusiasts and the withering scorn of debunkers. Jeffrey Meldrum’s lab came to house more than 300 casts of ...

Animals in children’s stories are often depicted as living in neat mum, dad and children family units. Examples include ...

Alex is said to have mastered 100 words and even asked questions – something that’s almost unheard of in non-human animals.

Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University in Pocatello, liked to begin his scholarly talks with a long and fastidious primer on human evolution before finally ...

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Warren Buffett calls it the Methuselah Effect: the financial advantages of a long life, a high rate of return, and as Buffett wrote in his 1965 Buffett Partnership letter, “a combination of both ...

“You’re able to stand onstage in front of tens of thousands of people,” I said. “That doesn’t sound shy to me.” (In short, how could he not be a total extrovert?) “That’s different,” he said. “There I ...

In the aftermath of a White House press conference that reignited the most reactionary narratives surrounding autism, the crisis of public health in the United States has reached a new and dangerous ...