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Stephan Halloy was conducting plant and wildlife surveys on the high plateaus around San Miguel de Tucumán in northwestern Argentina in the 1970s, when he first encountered lizard paddles. The mountains around the Argentine city quickly climb to elevations of 13,000 to 16,400 feet, filling a multitude of ecological niches …

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – When his Zoom interview ended after the game, before he triumphed out on the team bus, Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert acknowledged that the historic play he was savoring did not go exactly as planned. “You weren’t supposed to get a publication,” Gobert said. “I was …

The newly taken images show an interstellar phenomenon flapping its ethereal wings in surprising detail. The spectacular display comes from a highly symmetrical gas nebula known as NGC 2899. The image was captured as part of the Cosmic Gems program of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), for educational and public …

There was a lot to like in Apple‘s (NASDAQ: AAPL) A big quarterly report came in Thursday afternoon, but the techwwherher’s meatiest bite is that it will run a 4-for-1 stock split by the end of next month. It is a movement that could be contagious among his fellow giants. …

This obituary is part of a series on people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. After serving as dean of women at Florida State University in the late 1960s, Katherine B. Hoffman said her greatest achievement had been to abolish her own position. Bringing female …