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324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (956+ words) stages, and some early animals, including insects, may have spent long periods moving between both environments...Their earliest history remains difficult to reconstruct because land environments at the time rarely...
Rare lava lake glows inside a volcano near Antarctica
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (701+ words) remarkably clear satellite view captured on August 24, 2026, offers a rare look at this volcanic heat surrounded...
American cheetah was not actually a cheetah, DNA reveals
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (1055+ words) They also show that it could live in different environments and eat different kinds of food....
America is running out of a mineral that crops cannot grow without
3+ week, 2+ day ago (741+ words) America could run out of phosphorus within 40 years, but recycling the mineral from soil, manure, and waste could help protect future food production. Farmers know the acronym NPK by heart: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the three nutrients every crop needs…...
Bizarre squid relative found in Wyoming is unlike anything seen before
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...
New hairy-leafed plant species confirms another of Darwin’s predictions
4+ week, 1+ day ago (986+ words) Saxifraga candelabrum is a newly confirmed carnivorous plant. Its sticky hairs trap small insects, while its flowers attract them with scent. Carnivorous plants are famous for dramatic traps, but catching an insect is only part of the story. To qualify…...
Coastal marsh erosion is moving huge amounts of carbon into the ocean
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1019+ words) Coastal marshes lock away carbon for centuries. But when they erode, that buried carbon slips sideways into the sea. Coastal marshes sit where land meets the sea. Their plants trap mud and sand, while their soils store carbon from roots…...
Researchers built a completely new tool to forecast earthquakes at a dangerous supervolcano
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1061+ words) Scientists combined a century of ground uplift data with earthquake physics to forecast the size and timing of quake swarms at Italy's Campi Flegrei caldera. Pozzuoli is a port town built inside the Campi Flegrei caldera in southern Italy. Its…...
Giant animals may explain how humans spread across the Americas
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1011+ words) Early humans may have spread across the Americas by specializing in giant prey such as mammoths, ground sloths, and gomphotheres. Near the end of the last Ice Age, the ancestors of Indigenous peoples spread from Alaska and the Yukon to…...
Stone Age families relied on snakes and lizards for food
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (1182+ words) Snakes and lizards made up a surprising share of meals at a Natufian settlement, where the same butchering method persisted for millennia. The familiar picture of the Stone Age diet centers on big animals: a gazelle on a spit, a…...