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Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature

When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" - proposing that biological...

Flying Dutch win world solar car race in Australia

ADELAIDE: Dutch team "Nuon" on Thursday won an epic 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) solar car race across Australia's outback for the third-straight year, continuing its dominance...

Crocodile tips Aussie PM Turnbull to win election

SYDNEY: A reptile star from global hit film "Crocodile Dundee" has picked incumbent Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to win national elections on Saturday.

Mystery of Darwin's strange mammals solved

WASHINGTON: To 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin, they were the strangest animals yet discovered, one looking like a hybrid of a hippo, rhino and rodent and another resembling a humpless camel with an elephant's trunk.

Birds use humanlike genes to speak: research

MIAMI: Birds use essentially the same genes to sing as humans do to speak. And flamingos are more closely related to pigeons than they are to pelicans.