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Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on the cover of Science....
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) serves as the Atlantic Ocean's conveyor belt, transporting warm water north toward the Arctic Circle and returning cold, dense water back to the tropics. Nearshore areas off Greenland are critical...

Giant claw unearthed in Mongolia belongs to a new species of two-fingered dinosaur

An international team of paleontologists and Earth scientists has identified fossilized remains as a two-clawed therizinosaur. The fossils were unearthed more than a decade...

Discovery reveals giant flying squirrel once soared over Southern Appalachia

A giant flying squirrel—about the size of today's house cats—once soared through the skies over what is now Southern Appalachia, gliding above rhinos, mastodons...

Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life...

Large bipedal dinosaur footprints discovered: Possible evidence of Mongolian giant Saurolophus

A joint dinosaur survey conducted by Okayama University of Science (OUS) and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, has uncovered one of...

Giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with humans for millennia in Americas, new discoveries suggest

Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge—up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons)—and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a...

How a giant prehistoric elephant skull helped untangle an evolutionary mystery

About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution...

Giant meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago may have aided early life

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet. One such space rock crashed...

Giant prehistoric elephant skull from India belongs to mysterious extinct species

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India's Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly known episode in...

Paleontologists describe new examples of giant sea scorpions from the Silurian and Devonian in New South Wales

A team of paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum Research Institute, and the WB Clarke Geoscience Center, in Australia,...

Findings reveal eurypterids evolved giant size independently at least nine times

Sea scorpions, ancient predators that patrolled Earth's marine and freshwater habitats hundreds of millions of years ago, are the focus of a sizable scientific...

Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs

Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its skull alone was over two feet long. It...

Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt

Every spring when the sun rises in the Arctic after months of darkness, life returns. The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs,...

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