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World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (523+ words) Most of our planet's crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see....
Scientists Find a Razor-Sharp Line of Earthquakes Hidden Beneath Alaska
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (230+ words) Back in 2002, a massive earthquake in central Alaska was felt as far away as Seattle....
Fossil Kept in a Drawer For 40 Years Turns Out to Be Antarctica's First Evidence of Dinosaurs
1+ week, 1+ day ago (284+ words) A fossil that has been sitting in a drawer for 40 years has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur ever retrieved from Antarctica....
A Strange, Boiling Hole Just Appeared Out of Nowhere in Yellowstone
1+ week, 5+ day ago (803+ words) A churning pool of water has opened up in Yellowstone National Park " just two days after scientists were walking around on the exact patch of ground. The spot where they were standing was replaced by a silt-gray pit the size…...
Asteroids May Have Delayed The Birth of Earth's First Continents
1+ week, 6+ day ago (751+ words) The planet Earth we live on today bears very few traces of its infancy....
Hundreds of Mysterious Quakes Have Been Detected Deep Under Antarctica
2+ week, 6+ day ago (298+ words) If a movie opened with scientists discovering hundreds of earthquakes deep under Antarctica " in a place where they're not supposed to happen, geologically speaking " you'might expect the next scene to involve aliens, ancient monsters, or something equally dramatic....
Mysterious Stonehenge 'Prototype' Found Just Miles From World-Famous Monument
2+ week, 6+ day ago (128+ words) LONDON (AP) " Archaeologists revealed Thursday that they have discovered a structure near the prehistoric stone circle of'Stonehenge'in southern England that may have served as a "prototype" for the 5, 000-year-old Neolithic monument....
Icebergs Are Transforming Deep-Sea Ecosystems, Scientists Discover
3+ week, 2+ day ago (252+ words) Greenland's glaciers are releasing four times more icebergs than 25 years ago as a result of climate change, with implications extending to maritime traffic and marine ecosystems, researchers said Thursday. "Our results indicate a direct, climate-driven connection between glacier change at…...
Extraordinary Fossils Solve a 500-Million-Year Evolution Mystery
3+ week, 5+ day ago (236+ words) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution....
Earth's Core May Be Wrapped in an Ancient, Unexpected Structure
3+ week, 5+ day ago (173+ words) The highest-resolution map yet of the underlying geology beneath Earth's Southern Hemisphere revealed something we had never known before: an ancient ocean floor that may wrap around the core....