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On certain afternoons, if I time it just right, I may spot a brown creeper (Certhia americana) on the trunk of a tree in my front yard. Moving...

NORWICH — Just before he began his senior year in high school, Jordan Fields woke up on August 28, 2011, to heavy rain falling on his family’s...

We’ve all seen the illustrations of human evolution, where a knuckle-walking chimpanzee on the left gradually transforms into an upright-walking...

HANOVER — When Elisabeth Newton, who works in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, realized she had made a remarkable...

ON WILLOUGHBY LAKE — Eric Gallimore squatted above the ice, bulky laptop in hand.In an oblong hole before him, cut with a chainsaw, floated the...

HANOVER — In 1848, bones belonging to a woolly mammoth were found in Mount Holly, Vt., during construction of a railroad line in Vermont’s Green...

BATH, Maine — The commercial fishery for herring has suffered in recent years due to new restrictions, but those same rules could benefit some of...