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Unraveling the Ice Age Enigma: Did the Neanderthals Conquer the Last Glacier?
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Unveiling the Nile’s Fossil Secrets: Tracing the Presence of Hippopotamus Fossils Along the River
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Assessing the Vulnerability of the Greater Seattle Area to Wildland-Urban Interface Conflagrations: Lessons from the Camp Fire and 1991 Oakland Firestorm
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Unraveling the Nexus: Hydro-meteorological Hazards and Climate Extremes in Earth Science
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Unleashing Inferno: Quantifying the Immense Heat of the 2019-2020 Australian Bushfires
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Exploring the Fossil Record: Unraveling the Disparity between Cretaceous and Triassic Dinosaur Fossils
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