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Lost world of birds and frogs: Scientists open a million-year-old cave time capsule in New Zealand, where 12 bird species and four frogs reveal a lost world reshaped by volcanoes and climate long before humans arrivedA remarkable fossil discovery in a New Zealand cave has unveiled a lost world of ancient birds and frogs, dating back one million years. Th...
Comet crash or ice volcano? Scientists are stumped by a secret world past Pluto, and it may be wearing a secret atmosphere2002 XV93 atmosphere mystery stuns space scientists as a distant Kuiper Belt object reveals unexpected signs of activity. The 470-kilometer...
In 1748, workers digging near Naples hit painted walls, and Pompeii began returning from ashIn a serendipitous turn of events in 1748, excavations near Naples revealed the buried city of Pompeii, a Roman gem preserved by the volcan...
In the 1750s, well diggers broke into a buried Roman Villa near Herculaneum: What looked like charcoal turned out to be ancient booksEighteenth-century workers in Herculaneum unearthed a unique Roman library preserved by the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. These carbonized papyr...
Bermuda Triangle mystery takes dramatic turn as scientists reveal what’s really hidden deep beneath the Atlantic OceanBermuda Triangle mystery solved: Scientists have uncovered a geological secret beneath Bermuda. A massive, lighter rock layer, formed durin...
A construction site buried by Mount Vesuvius may have finally explained why Roman concrete lasted for thousands of yearsAncient Roman concrete's remarkable durability, long attributed to luck, is now understood as a result of a sophisticated "hot mixing" proc...
Inside the Discovery of a Rare “Living Fossil” From the Age of DinosaursA remarkable fossil discovery in Inner Mongolia reveals Weichangiops squamosus, an ancient crustacean. This find, over 100 million years ol...
Video: Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano erupts for the first time in over 10000 years, sending massive ash plumes toward Oman and YemenHayli Gubbi: Ethiopia's dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano has erupted after 10,000 years. Towering ash columns drifted across the Red Sea. This e...
'Ghost island' emerges after underwater volcanic eruption, then quickly vanishes; details insideA fleeting 'ghost island' emerged in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan's coast in January 2023, born from the Kumani Bank underwater mud volca...
Antarctica hides massive secrets under its vast ice shelves, scientists are just finding out the detailsScientists have made remarkable discoveries beneath Antarctica's million-year-old ice, revealing ancient landscapes, subglacial lakes teemi...
Life, water on Mars? Morning frost detected on red planet. What does this mean?A significant discovery has been made as early morning frost was found on Mars. The discovery came by chance -- no one expected to find fro...
Volcanoes on Venus! Radar shows fresh lava flows, planet may have more volcanoes than thoughtRadar footage has revealed that the surface of the planet Venus shows some fresh lava flows indicating that there are active volcanoes on t...
Scientists found "spooky golden egg" at the bottom of Pacific OceanScientists have discovered a mysterious object, dubbed the "spooky golden egg," at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Using remote-controlled...
New 1.6-metre-tall Moai discovered in Chilean Island. See detailsThe newly discovered moai on Easter Island has been described as a 1.6-meter statue that is "full-bodied with recognizable features but no ...
6.4-magnitude earthquake jolts California, leaves residents ‘powerless’Confirmed reports by the US Geological Survey stated that the quake hit at a depth of 10 miles at 2.34 am near Eureka, in California's Humb...
How world's biggest volcanoes formed unveiledThe study found that the volcanoes formed along twin tracks due to a shift in the Pacific plate's direction three million years ago.
NASA's rover discovery ignites curiosity on Mars volcanic historyNASA's Curiosity has been exploring sedimentary rocks within Gale Crater since landing in August 2012.
Pluto may have giant icy volcanoes: NASAThe two cryovolcano candidates are large features measuring tens of kilometres across and several kilometres high, NASA said.
Moon's most unusual volcano more massive than thoughtLead author and Durham University PhD student Jack Wilson said he was surprised by the gigantic scale of the explosion.
Massive extinct volcano discovered beneath Pacific OceanScientists, at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), on a seafloor mapping mission found a new seamount near the Johnson Atoll in the Paci...