Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution?
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The 160-mile-long Garlock fault in California has begun moving for the first time on record; has the potential of producing a magnitude eight earthquake
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Earliest signs of life
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How to save a glacier – Iceland's scientists offer hope with carbon capture technology
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Scientists discover new evidence of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs
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This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite. Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron...
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron carbide mineral from the Wedderburn iron meteorite." PDF link
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The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch
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Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter the desert floor in stunning before-and-after images
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Researchers in Norway have found a freshwater pond on the seabed outside the country's western coast
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NASA maps surface changes from California quakes
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Scientists have identified more than fifty new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland ice sheet
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Mary Anning inspired 'she sells sea shells' — but she was actually a legendary fossil hunter
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The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
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Animation of Earth's magnetic pole shift
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Earth's magnetic pole is wandering, lurching toward Siberia
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The mad scramble to claim the world's most coveted meteorite
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Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
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Geologists show Tasmania and the Grand Canyon were connected on ancient supercontinent
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Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
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Why are lakes and rivers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains so brilliantly turquoise blue?
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When will the Earth try to kill us again: Most mass extinctions began with vast convulsions of Earth’s interior—can we detect that?
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Why Hawaii's volcano is so unusual
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