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Centuries of Avalanches Are Stored in Tree Rings
Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say.
By Katherine Kornei
Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say.
By Katherine Kornei
More than 100 million years ago, scientists say, warming seas and reduced oxygen may have sent some sharks higher into the water column, where they evolved to be fierce and hungry.
By Jeanne Timmons
Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar.
By Becky Ferreira
An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land.
By Asher Elbein
The insects seem to know which injuries to treat as they engage in a behavior that seems almost human.
By Annie Roth
A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago.
By Jack Tamisiea
A fatal fungal disease has devastated the world’s amphibians. But the fungus has a vulnerability: It cannot tolerate heat.
By Emily Anthes
Researchers discovered painted ladies on a South American beach and then built a case that they started their journey in Europe or Africa.
By Monique Brouillette
There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics.
By Veronique Greenwood
Researchers analyzed a skull found in Montana of a plant-eating member of the ceratops family, finding distinct traits.
By Asher Elbein
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