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Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands region, geophysics agency says

EARTHQUAKES
An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the coast of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands region on Monday, the country's geophysics agency said, adding there was...

Ritualistically buried donkey remains provide insight into trade and culture in ancient Israel

EARTH
Donkeys played an important role in the lives of ancient Mediterranean people, providing both food and a means of carrying goods. New evidence from...

Research shows path toward protocells on Saturn’s moon Titan

ASTRONOMY
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart...

New clues from two million-year-old tooth enamel tell us more about an ancient relative of humans

Uncategorized
For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked...

Study reveals how ancient elk rock art transformed from realistic to warped wolf-like beasts

EARTH
A recent study by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai....

Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds

EARTH
Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior is also observed in...

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York

ASTRONOMY
For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever...

Measuring how—and where—Antarctic ice is cracking with new data tool

OCEANOGRAPHY
A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead to 11 feet of...

Vanishing shores: Coastal geologist issues urgent call to save the Gulf Coast

ENVIRONMENT
For John B. Anderson, the Gulf Coast is personal. The W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice University spent his early years...

New species of tiny Cretaceous mammal discovered on the Dorset coast

PALEONTOLOGY
A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the Berriasian age, providing fresh...

Complex animals living millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion revealed by seabed tracks

PALEONTOLOGY
The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear...

70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered under Denver Museum of Nature and Science

PALEONTOLOGY
A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking lot in...
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