Southern right whales are having fewer calves: What this says about ocean health

Most people are lucky to simply get a glimpse of some fragment of a whale. A subtle puff of mist over the horizon, the curve ...

Secrets beneath the Southern Ocean: How ancient waters helped cool the Earth

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials. ” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

Earth's oxygen boom: How nickel and urea in early oceans shaped microbial life and set the stage

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...
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Buried Giants Discovered Under the North Sea Are Flipping Basic Rules of Geology Upside Down

Deep beneath the choppy waters of the North Sea, something strange is challenging the very rules that have guided geologists for over three centuries. Using high-resolution seismic imaging and ...