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Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years — including one that shook communities almost exactly two years...
An ancient leg bone uncovered in Africa might provide a step forward in understanding how dinosaurs and their close relatives evolved. The 225-million-year-old fossil adds to growing evidence that an enigmatic group of reptiles known as the silesaurs played...

True size of the largest tropical peatland revealed

A new study has mapped the full scale of a vast region of peatland in the heart of the Congo Basin, revealing it to...

Grain size of rocks in Earth’s mantle affects tectonics

The planet is shaped by forces deep within its interior. These push the plates of the Earth's crust against each other, causing mountains and...

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