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Fossils Suggest First Fully Marine Amphibian Lived in Triassic Seas

Seawater chemistry in the bones and heavy armor on the skeletons point to lifelong ocean living and could change ideas about amphibian limits.

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At Least 4.1‑Billion‑Year‑Old Martian Rock Reveals Early Water and Complex Mantle

Study Finds Human Warming Reversed Two Millennia of Ice Growth at Barnes Ice Cap

Finland Approves Operation of Onkalo, the First Deep Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel

Landsat 9 Image Spotlights 'Spider Crater' Impact Structure in Western Australia

Perseverance Breaks Off-World Driving Record on Mars

Mastodon Presses 170 Copies of Marrow Deep With Actual Mastodon Bone Dust

Curiosity’s New Dawn Image Reveals Vast Yardang Layer on Mount Sharp

Curiosity Releases Dawn Panorama Revealing Vast Yardang Layer on Mount Sharp

Hōlei Sea Arch Collapses Into Pacific at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Study Suggests Animals May Have Evolved 200 Million Years Earlier

Webb and Spitzer Spectra Show Two Kinds of Giant Planetary Collisions

Researchers Say Radar Shows a Man-Made Object Beneath Durupınar Mound

3.7 Magnitude Quake Jolts South Lake Tahoe Area

Rockslide Collapses Agate Street Staircase in Laguna Beach After Hurricane Polo Swells

Magnitude 4.2 Earthquake Shakes Puget Sound Near Wauna

Perseverance Finds Igneous Margin Unit Shaped by Three Distinct Water Episodes

Scientists Calibrate Argon-Argon Clock Using Vesuvius to Date Pompeii to Decade Precision

3.8-Magnitude Quake Rattles Communities Near Piru in Ventura County

Ames Crater Re‑dated to About 372 Million Years