An illustration of how Proterocladus antiquus likely appeared 1 billion years ago. The oldest green seaweed on record, the ancestor of all land plants, lived about 1 billion years ago, a new study finds. Scientists have discovered the fossils of…
Antarctica’s Eagle Island on Feb. 4 and Feb. 13, 2020. It’s easy to forget that Antarctica is technically a desert, until you see it without snow. A new pair of satellite images shared by NASA’s Earth Observatory makes that stark…
An illustration of the protoplanetary disk around our sun. Dust from meteorites that crash-landed on Earth have revealed that Earth’s precursor, known as proto-Earth, formed much faster than previously thought, a new study finds. An analysis of this meteorite dust…
The temple at Lachish is the first ancient Canaanite temple found in more than 50 years and is extraordinarily well preserved, say archaeologists. A 3,000-year-old temple, built by the Canaanites around the time of the ancient Israelite invasion, has been…
A local farmer discovered this stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal in Turkey. Inscriptions on the stone, dating back to the 8th century B.C. told the story of an ancient lost civilization in Turkey. Last winter, a local farmer in…
Spores of the parasite H. salminicola swim under a microscope. Those alien “eyes” are actually stinger cells, one of the few features this organism hasn’t evolved away. When the parasitic blob known as Henneguya salminicola sinks its spores into the…