13+ hour, 6+ min ago   (793+ words) Mars has many weird geological features, from deep underground cave-like systems formed by the passage of lava to global dust storms which can cover the entire planet. It has strange features on its surface too, like bizarre looking "spiders" more…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (456+ words) When an iceberg named A-68 broke away from Antarctica's ice shelf, it did more than alter the region's outline — it gave scientists a rare look into a hidden world beneath the ice, revealing a massive fish nursery on the floor of…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (541+ words) A new species of ancient "sword dragon" marine reptile has been discovered in a set of fossils found in England, according to researchers. Named Xiphodracon goldencapsis, the new species is an ichthyosaur -- an order of large extinct marine reptiles -- that…...

1+ year, 7+ hour ago   (886+ words) Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten rock since December, an appropriately high frequency for one…...

1+ year, 2+ week ago   (349+ words) Ancient dinosaur footprints dating back 115 million years were discovered in Northwest Travis County, Texas, after recent flooding swept away layers of sediment and brush that had long hidden them, according to officials. The discovery was made in the Big Sandy…...

1+ year, 1+ week ago   (745+ words) Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place between 2.6 million and 2.8 million years ago — and one of them may be a…...