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Tim Vernimmen

Pearl and Hermes Atoll, in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument

Environment and Conservation

The world's biggest marine reserve seems to be doing its job

21 October 2022. By Tim Vernimmen

Vaquita porpoises could still recover—if illegal fishing ends now

12 May 2022. By Tim Vernimmen

Hungry sea sponges feast on fossils atop an extinct underwater volcano

11 February 2022. By Tim Vernimmen

These fossils offer rare glimpse at life after a global apocalypse

12 January 2022. By Tim Vernimmen

What wild chimps can teach humans about healthy aging

2 July 2021. By Tim Vernimmen

Puzzling skull discovery may point to previously unknown human ancestor

25 June 2021. By Tim Vernimmen

Environment and Conservation

How we can help coral and seabirds survive a warming world

28 May 2021. By Tim Vernimmen

Sharks can navigate via Earth's magnetic field, study confirms for the first time

8 May 2021. By Tim Vernimmen

Environment and Conservation

Oceanic shark and ray populations have collapsed by 70 percent over 50 years

28 January 2021. By Tim Vernimmen

Why do humans embrace rituals? Disease and danger may be at the root of the behaviours.

13 January 2021. By Tim Vernimmen

Ancient tools show how humans adapted to rainforests

15 June 2020. By Tim Vernimmen

Mysterious crocodile relative may have walked on two legs

11 June 2020. By Tim Vernimmen

Massive 3,000-year-old ceremonial complex discovered in “plain sight”

3 June 2020. By Tim Vernimmen

Fossil skulls rewrite the stories of two ancient human ancestors

2 April 2020. By Tim Vernimmen

How the dinosaur-killing asteroid primed Earth for modern life

18 January 2020. By Tim Vernimmen

10 new birds discovered in Indonesian 'lost world'

11 January 2020. By Tim Vernimmen

To save a species on the brink, look to where its ancestors thrived

7 November 2019. By Tim Vernimmen

Amazing fossil shark skeleton is the first of its kind

2 October 2019. By Tim Vernimmen

Humans, not glaciers, likely doomed Ice Age cave bears

15 August 2019. By Tim Vernimmen

Plant-eating crocodiles thrived in dinosaur times

28 June 2019. By Tim Vernimmen