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Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

A museum in Denver has found a fossil that is almost 70 million years old under its parking lot while running an unrelated ...

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Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

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Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

A dinosaur fossil was found nearly 800 feet below a parking lot at a Denver museum that houses fossils of the extinct species.