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One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
12+ hour, 35+ min ago (721+ words) A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and possibly changed Earth’s history....
The Oldest Known Right-Handed Animal May Have Lived 550 Million Years Ago
13+ hour, 43+ min ago (720+ words) New research suggests that the ancient animal Spriggina floundersi tended to bend to the right, making it the oldest known example of lateralized behavior. More than 550 million years ago, a small, flattened animal moved across the seafloor and repeatedly favored…...
Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Antarctica Froze Before the Arctic
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (584+ words) Antarctica’s first ice sheet may have begun with a geological head start hidden deep beneath the continent....
Scientists Detect Hundreds of Iceberg Earthquakes at Antarctica’s Crumbling Doomsday Glacier
1+ week, 5+ day ago (804+ words) Hundreds of previously uncataloged Antarctic glacial earthquakes may reveal how Thwaites Glacier is changing near the sea. When a towering piece of ice breaks from a glacier and crashes into the ocean, the impact can send vibrations through the ground....
Scientists Discover the Oldest Known Fossils of Humans’ Closest Invertebrate Relatives
3+ week, 4+ day ago (944+ words) Animal life today is remarkably varied and complex, and animals have spread into nearly every environment on Earth, from harsh hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean to the skies above the continents. For most of Earth’s history, however, life looked…...
Scientists Just Repeated a Nobel Prize-Winning Experiment in a Creature Older Than Jellyfish
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (234+ words) A century after one of developmental biology’s most influential experiments, researchers have revisited the concept of the embryonic “organizer” in one of the oldest animal lineages alive today....
How Ancient People Moved a 6-Ton Stone 700 Kilometers to Stonehenge
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (280+ words) Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone likely traveled about 700 kilometers from Scotland through a carefully planned human effort....
Why Evolution Stalled for Millions of Years Before Suddenly Exploding
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (681+ words) A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for millions of years until sexual reproduction helped unleash a burst of biodiversity. New research suggests that the earliest animals on Earth may have unintentionally slowed the pace of evolution for millions of…...
The “Impossible” Earthquake Beneath Utah Was Real After All
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (886+ words) Scientists have confirmed a rare “impossible” earthquake deep beneath Utah, revealing a hidden source of seismic activity inside Earth’s mantle. Nearly five decades after a puzzling earthquake struck deep beneath northern Utah, scientists have confirmed that the event was real…...
Yale Discovery Overturns Long-Held “Evolutionary Dead End” Theory
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (347+ words) The discovery of Typhlichthys styx shows that cave-adapted species can continue evolving and splitting into new species, with underground aquifers playing a crucial role in that process. Researchers at Yale have identified a previously unknown species of eyeless cavefish, a…...