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Scientists reveal overlooked ocean processes crucial for carbon storage

EARTH
A new study has unveiled the key mechanisms that preserve organic carbon in the ocean—a poorly understood but vital process that influences the Earth's...

Scientists have identified an estimated 10% of all species on Earth. Here’s what they found in 2024

EARTH
A toothy toadstool. A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean shallows. These wild wonders were among...

Scientists gather to decode puzzle of the world’s rarest whale in ‘extraordinary’ New Zealand study

PALEONTOLOGY
It is the world's rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on...

A fossil first: Scientists find 1.5-million-year-old footprints of two different species of human ancestors at same spot

PALEONTOLOGY
More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in...

Peru scientists unveil crocodile fossil up to 12 million years old

PALEONTOLOGY
Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was discovered in a Peruvian...

Mysterious craters exploded in Siberia’s permafrost. Scientists say they now know why

EARTH
A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide, plunging down into an...

Scientists discover one of the Earth’s earliest animals in Australian outback

PALEONTOLOGY
In the shadow of South Australia's largest mountain range beneath the outback soil lies a fossil record that reveals a rich history of life...

Scientists now know what the head of the biggest bug to ever crawl the Earth looked like

PALEONTOLOGY
As if the largest bug to ever live—a monster nearly 9 feet long with as many as 64 legs—wasn't terrifying enough, scientists could only...

Scientists uncover details of a catastrophic volcanic eruption and flood over 1,000 years ago

VOLCANOES
In the year 946 CE, the Changbaishan-Tianchi volcano, on the border between China and North Korea, erupted ferociously. The eruption released dozens of cubic...

Scientists offer a detailed look at the skeleton of an ancient predator that thrived in extreme conditions

PALEONTOLOGY
Imagine a world on the brink of collapse: volcanic eruptions spewing toxic gases, oceans turning acidic, and up to 90% of Earth's species vanishing...

Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our sun

ASTRONOMY
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our...

Scientists pin down the origins of the moon’s tenuous atmosphere

ASTRONOMY
While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a very thin layer of...
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