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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The world’s smallest marine mammal is so critically endangered that there are only about 10 remaining in its sole habitat of Mexico’s Gulf of California. But that may not yet spell doom for the vaquita porpoise, according to new research. Vaquitas have been pushed to the brink of going extinct due

By Katie Hunt, CNN Ancient humans ate copious quantities of oysters — shucking billions of shells over thousands of years in a way that did not appear to cause oyster populations to collapse as they have in many places today. New research, based on an analysis of dozens of archaeological sites in the United States

By Rob Picheta, CNN The US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday has reverberated around the world, setting the country apart from its key allies on reproductive healthcare. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it “clearly has a massive impact on people’s thinking around the world,” and called the court’s decision

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Think of this as one very long last dance. Two galaxies located 60 million light-years from Earth have been in the process of coming together for 400 million years. The galaxies, NGC 1512 and NGC 1510, are located in the Horologium constellation, as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. The larger of

By Angie Orellana Hernandez and Ashley Strickland, CNN While the moon’s brightness may have obscured April Lyrid’s meteor shower, stargazers will have another opportunity to spot meteors with the upcoming Eta Aquariids meteor shower, peaking at around 12 a.m. ET on May 5, according to American Meteor Society predictions. Predictions of the peak vary, however,

By Hande Atay Alam and Radina Gigova, CNN Actress and activist Angelina Jolie paid a surprise visit to a boarding school and medical institution in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, according to Maksym Kozytskyy, head of Lviv’s regional military administration. “In one of the medical institutions, she has visited children who suffered

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Thousands of emperor penguins cluster on the ice of Atka Bay in Antarctica, mostly unaware that an interloper lives among them. Slightly shorter than the average adult emperor, the 3-foot-tall (1-meter-tall) autonomous robot sits silently within the colony, nondescript compared with humans who sometimes emerge from a nearby research station. The

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The nearby Beta Pictoris planetary system, located 63 light-years away from us, has fascinated researchers for decades. Now, astronomers have found 30 exocomets, or comets located outside of our solar system, orbiting the sunlike Beta Pictoris star, which makes it even more intriguing. The Beta Pictoris star was discovered nearly 40

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Premier of the British Virgin Islands and the territory’s ports director were arrested Thursday in Miami on charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering, according to a criminal affidavit filed in the US District Court’s Southern District of Florida. Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and BVI Ports Authority Managing Director

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The fossils of giant, extinct marine reptiles have been found in an unlikely place: within the high altitudes of the Swiss Alps. The fossils belong to three ichthyosaurs, and they may have been some of the largest animals that ever lived on Earth, according to a new study. The ancient creatures