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New earthquake fault found in California
Scientists have discovered a new fault in the earthquake-prone region of Southern California that includes the greater Los Angeles area.
October 7, 2016
Snake eats lizard eats beetle
Scientists have discovered a 48-million-year-old fossil food chain in Germany. It's a snake with a lizard in its stomach, which in turn had eaten a beetle.
October 6, 2016
How to ask a horse what it wants
Do you want a blanket? Norwegian researchers recently described how they trained horses to use symbols to answer that question.
October 5, 2016
Microplastics found in deep-sea animals
Scientists were astonished to discover tiny bits of plastic inside the bodies of animals in the deep ocean.
October 4, 2016
Comet strike after dinosaur extinction?
An extraterrestrial impact likely caused the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. Did a comet strike 10 million years later cause a global warming?
October 3, 2016
Clues to ancient earthquakes in caves
Stalagmites on the floors of caves in southern Indiana contain evidence of past earthquakes, scientists say.
October 3, 2016
Are we in a sixth mass extinction?
This short video puts modern extinctions in context by comparing them with Earth's 5 previous mass extinctions.
September 29, 2016
Shark and tuna convergent evolution
Lamnid sharks and tuna have similar physical traits that make them top ocean predators. But, a new study says, they took very different evolutionary paths.
September 28, 2016
Melting sea ice leaves polar bears hungry
“Sea ice really is their platform for life. They are capable of existing on land for part of the year, but the sea ice is where they obtain their main prey.”
September 24, 2016
Satellite sees 3 California wildfires
There were more than a dozen wildfires burning in California, as of September 20.
September 20, 2016
