The Japanese earthquake and tsunami remind us that we exist in geologic time and in a world where catastrophic events beyond our predicting may occur. These events — and the growing specter of climate ...

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Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

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Russian researchers have pulled off a feat that sounds closer to science fiction than standard lab work, reviving microscopic “zombie worms” that had been locked in Arctic ice for roughly 24,000 years ...

Russian researchers have coaxed microscopic animals back to life after they spent roughly 24,000 years locked in Siberian ice, turning a patch of permafrost into a real-world time capsule. The revived ...

An international team has set up a remote camp on the ice 700 km from the nearest base (New Zealand’s Scott Base) to attempt to drill for mud and rocks holding critical insights about the fate of the ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

The pieces loosely fit together, but they’re best enjoyed as a triptych of visually and tonally distinct stories: The four ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

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Berlin — On a stage in central Berlin one night last month, Jens Zinke slid a white slab out of a clear plastic sleeve. At first it looked like a piece of Styrofoam, with a pencil-sized groove cut ...