You might not expect a small Wisconsin town to have deep circus roots, but Baraboo proudly wears the title “Circus Capital of the World” like a badge of honor. This unassuming town was once the winter ...

For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

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