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Strange corkscrew burrows and other unexpected structures discovered 4.7 miles deep in the Japan TrenchNew scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that help sea creatures survive in the ocean's deepest reaches.
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Lake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica's iceBuried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling Lake Ontario in terms of size and volume.
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Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen riversQuakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this river and others switch between moving jerkily and flowing like honey.
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Watch robot dog and drone locked in fierce battle — blasting fireworks at each other in future warfare demoA viral video captured in an unknown location and widely shared on social media in China shows a robotic dog and a drone firing fireworks at each other.
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Giant Florida panther captured by wildlife officials is heaviest on recordWildlife officials accidentally captured the heaviest Florida panther ever documented during a routine population check.
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World's biggest underground thermal lake discovered in Albania at bottom of 330-foot abyssResearchers have returned to an underground thermal lake they first came across in 2021 in southern Albania and confirmed it is the largest of its kind known in the world.
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Romania's trovants: The bulbous 'living' rocks that inspired folkloric tales of dinosaur eggs and aliensTrovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired folklore of dinosaur eggs, plant fossils and alien creations.
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1,900-year-old Roman sanctuary and coin found in flooded Spanish caveArchaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring a cave called the Cova de les Dones in eastern Spain.
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Greenland's ice sheet — the second biggest in the world — is cracking open at alarming speed, scientists discoverNew 3D maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet show how huge cracks in the ice that accelerate melting expanded between 2016 and 2021.
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Rabbits may have a surprising source of calcium — eating their own teethRabbits' teeth grow continuously, and bunnies wear them down by munching fiber-rich foods. Scientists suggest rabbits recycle a fine powder resulting from this constant grinding to fuel tooth growth.
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Upheaval Dome: Utah's 'belly button' that has divided scientists since its discoveryUpheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists think it was created by an ancient meteor strike.
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Are Atlantic Ocean currents weakening? A new study finds no, but other experts aren't so sure.A new study suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has not weakened since the 1960s — but there's no doubt the circulation will slow in the future, experts say.
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Last ice age quiz: How much do you know about Earth's frosty past?Quiz How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz.
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Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggestsThe first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.
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Pamukkale: Turkey's 'cotton castle' of white limestone that inspired an ancient cultThe Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.
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Magnetic signals from Earth's tides revealed in unprecedented detailScientists have captured faint magnetic signatures resulting from the tidal movement of seawater across the planet — and they might have to wait until 2030 to get another shot at it.
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Our outer ears may have come from ancient fish gills, scientists discoverScientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments.
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What's inside Earth quiz: Test your knowledge of our planet's hidden layersQuiz How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?
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Giant reserves of 'gold' hydrogen may be lurking beneath at least 30 US states, 1st-of-its-kind map revealsUSGS researchers have unveiled the first map of prospective locations for hydrogen gas in the contiguous United States — and there's a lot more than they previously thought.
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Giant ice age landforms discovered deep beneath North Sea revealed in amazing detailNew images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud.
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The Bungle Bungles: Towering domes in the Australian outback that contain traces of the earliest life-forms on EarthThe Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater.
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2,800-year-old structure unearthed in Israel was likely used for cultic practices and sacrifice, archaeologists sayArchaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period.
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'I was shaking when I first unearthed it': 11th-century silver coin hoard unearthed in EnglandArchaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king.
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Antarctica 'pyramid': The strangely symmetrical mountain that sparked a major alien conspiracy theoryAntarctica is home to a peak shaped like a perfect pyramid — but contrary to what conspiracy theorists say, the mountain's four symmetrical faces were forged through natural processes.
