4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (909+ words) Sharks have always carried an air of mystery. They move through water that humans rarely see clearly, and much of their lives remain hidden. Scientists have spent decades trying to understand them, especially how long they live. That number shapes…...

8+ hour, 24+ min ago  (913+ words) When an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it ended the reign of the non-avian dinosaurs and wiped out roughly a third of all life on the planet." The sky went dark, temperatures collapsed,…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (908+ words) Most dangerous slopes give some warning. They creep downhill for months or years, leaving cracks that satellites and seismometers can track. Around Alaska's glaciated fjords, that expectation shapes how monitoring teams decide when to issue alerts. The slope above Tracy…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (799+ words) A new analysis has revealed that Australia's Twelve Apostles " towering limestone rock stacks along the country's southeast coast " rose after moving tectonic plates lifted old sea floor. Subsequently, the action of the waves carved the familiar pillars. The finding turns…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (806+ words) In the waters of the South Pacific, geologists have identified a massive land area that has stayed mostly hidden below the surface. Many scientists now consider it a separate continent spanning nearly two million square miles (5 million square kilometers). Experts…...

5+ day, 30+ min ago  (796+ words) A Middle Jurassic dinosaur has been unearthed 166 million years after it died. It was the size of a large dog and ate a vegetarian diet. This skeleton was first noticed decades ago, but due to tricky access along the Isle…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (779+ words) Even the albatross, one of nature's most celebrated fliers, has wings that aren't optimally shaped for the epic migrations it makes." A new study has found that most bird species are flying around with wings that evolution never quite perfected....

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (865+ words) Free climbers scrambling over a steep coastal mountain in Italy noticed something odd on a broad slab of limestone. The rock sitting on the Monte Conero anticline near Ancona, in Italy's Marche region, holds many deep, paddle-like footprint tracks packed…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (607+ words) The new University of Arizona study showing that shallow faults near Seattle ruptured in late 923 or early 924 A. D. is striking on its own. Even more remarkable is the toolkit that pinned a Dark Ages disaster to a single six-month window. This…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (941+ words) About 210 million years ago, on a damp riverbank in what is now northern New Mexico, two small crocodile relatives stood in the same patch of prehistoric world. They were about the size of jackals, and at a glance, they probably…...