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A chance museum discovery has led paleontologists to identify a new species of ancient reptile, Sphenodraco scandentis, that ...

New Hampshire Fish and Game received a report from hikers after 1:00 p.m., which claimed that they saw a man free falling ...

If you’re unfamiliar with how rock climbing works, an auto-belay is considered to be vital by many. This device makes it ...

Gone are the color-coded plastic holds and the plush gym flooring. Instead, real rock digs into my fingers, my feet scrape ...

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Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...

MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...

The next serious free soloist of note appeared in 1973, when “Hot” Henry Barber shocked the climbing community by scaling the 1,500-foot north face of Yosemite’s Sentinel Rock without a rope.