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The village likely dates to the time of Europe's first farmers, who arrived from Anatolia about 8,000 years ago.

Wildlife experts recently captured footage of frozen discs, known as "ice pancakes," on the surface of a river in Scotland after an unusual cold snap.

Biological activity in some Arctic lakes has ratcheted up dramatically over the past 150 years.

All three lakes used to be part of the same ancient body of water.

Giant viruses infect tiny algae in a rare epishelf lake in the Arctic Ocean that's one of the last of its kind.

More than a decade of drought recently revealed long-submerged bodies in the depths of Lake Mead, a vast reservoir in Las Vegas.

Utah wildlife officials have restocked lakes in this way since the 1950s.

Scientists have finally solved a 25-year-old mystery surrounding a neurodegenerative disease killing bald eagles and other lake animals in the U.S.

Heat from the Earth's interior may help sustain life in this bizarre environment.

Infections with this organism are almost universally fatal, with less than a 3% survival rate.