The story behind a small ivory sculpture that was carved 40,000 years ago.
Author: BBC News - Science & Environment
Paris accord: US and Syria alone as Nicaragua signs
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Stephen Hawking PhD readers crash Cambridge University website
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More acidic oceans ‘will affect all sea life’
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The place spacecraft go to die
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Colombia vets nurse tiny spider monkey back to health
Vets in Colombia are nursing a tiny spider monkey back to health.
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