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A Rare, Pregnant Ichthyosaur Fossil Discovered in Chile Is Revealing More Secrets About the Early Cretaceous World
Glaciers in Chile’s Patagonia region have been melting in recent years, exposing fossils underneath. Judith Pardo-Pérez, a ...
Youngest basaltic lunar meteorite fills nearly one billion-year gap in moon's volcanic history
A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...
Massive boulders ejected during DART mission may complicate future asteroid deflection efforts
When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...
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Study provides insight into how some species thrive in dark, oxygen-free environments
Joan Bernhard, a senior scientist in WHOI's Geology & Geophysics Department and foraminifera ... euxinic seafloor sediments, The ISME Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae248 ...
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To combat ‘zombie scrolling’, integrate social media into your teaching
Transform Gen Z students from mindless scrollers to mindful scholars with this guide to maximising the features of each ...
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Will temperate seas act as refuge for coral reefs? Not in time, study says
Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further ...
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Young Lunar Meteorite Bridges Billion-Year Volcanic Gap
A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...
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These ancient footprints in New Mexico’s white sand dunes rewrote North American history
Wikimedia Commons/US Geological Service White Sands, New Mexico David Bustos found strange marks in the white sands of New ...
Residents wear masks as volcanic ash blankets villages near erupting Indonesian volcano
Residents are wearing masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that is blanketing several Indonesian villages as ...
Pterosaur fossils discovered in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
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These bizarre stars could be burning darkness to survive
“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...
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North america’s oldest pterosaur unearthed in Arizona’s Triassic time capsule
In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...