Scientists track Earth’s ancient, destroyed oceans
The oceans and continents aren't as fixed as we tend to think of them.
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What is the Wilson Cycle, builder and slayer of supercontinents?
There're two ways you can find out how supercontinents form. This is the one where you don't have to wait ...
Forget Atlantis — “lost continent” found under Mauritius
It's all geology, no mystic civilization.
First humans might have arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier during the Last Glacial Maximum
A new study seems to suggest that an old but controversial hypothesis may be true. Humans might have first arrived ...
The continents and their highest points
Continents are the large landmasses on Earth, delimitated by convention rather than geographical properties. Here we will refer to elevation ...
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Animals take medicine when they are sick: a few striking cases
What do primates, birds, bees, and butterflies have in common? They all use medicine -- it's more common than you...
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