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Museum ‘Mammoth’ Bones in Alaska Identified as Ancient Whale Remains

Laboratory tests date the remains to about 2,000–3,000 years, identifying them as two whale species.

Mars Express Maps Dark Deposits in Shalbatana Vallis

Perseverance Shares Westernmost Selfie and Vivid Panorama From Mars

Mars’ Dark Patch Has Grown Since 1976, New Orbiter Images Show

New Study Finds Tectonic Uplift Shaped the Twelve Apostles and Pins Their Limestone at 8.6–14 Million Years

Shelf-Like Band on Mars Bolsters Case for Ancient Northern Ocean

New Evidence Points to Ancient Lake Spillover Setting Colorado River’s Grand Canyon Course

Famed ‘Oldest Octopus’ Reclassified as Nautiloid After High-Energy X-Ray Study

Scientists Confirm Massive Low-Salinity Aquifer Beneath Atlantic Off U.S. Northeast

Perseverance Radar Reveals Ancient Buried Delta Beneath Jezero Crater

Perseverance Radar Reveals Buried Ancient River Delta Beneath Jezero Crater

Storms Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Footprints on Scottish Beach Before Tides Erase Them

Scientists Recover Record 228-Meter Sub-Ice Sediment Core in West Antarctica

Huayuan Biota From China Unveils Deep-Water Cambrian Life After Early Mass Extinction

First Afar Paranthropus Fossil Pushes Genus’ Range 1,000 Kilometers North

High-Resolution Mars Mapping Points to Arctic-Sized Ocean 3 Billion Years Ago

Record-Deep Arctic Gas Hydrate Seeps Teeming With Life Confirmed at Molloy Ridge

Drone Spots Hiker Trapped in Quicksand at Arches, Rescuers Free Him in 20-Degree Cold

First Global Map Identifies 16 Mega Drainage Basins on Ancient Mars

115-Million-Year-Old Australian Shark Fossils Push Back Onset of Giant Body Size in Modern Sharks