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Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara argues the strongest answer to online "dinosaurs never existed" claims isn't a debate — it's a shovel. In ...

The mission 1.2 billion years of geological history at the Grand Canyon finally has an explanation.

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A Nature Geoscience study traces two giant tears in the Arabian Plate beneath southeastern Iran and what they reveal about ...

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In the foothills of southern Italy's iconic Aspromonte Mountains, University of Oregon geologist Becky Dorsey wields a foot-long hammer and gazes at ...

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