A towering 34-foot mechanical seahorse hooked not only the “Director Award” for design at this year's Rose Parade — Guinness ...

But around 100,000 years ago, at the beginning of the last of the Pleistocene ice ages, it went extinct—because in the changed climate its size had become a fatal handicap, a new study suggests.

A version of this story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world’s largest bee may also be the planet’s most elusive. First discovered in 1859 by the prominent ...

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national gun buyback scheme, labelling it the largest such measure since John Howard initiated a similar plan in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.

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