An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent's most ...

During the Famennian and earliest Carboniferous, Australia was on or near the location of the ancient Equator (the palaeoequator). Most fossil records of the earliest amniotes, ...

Regions near the ancient equator experienced less pronounced seasonal changes, while areas at higher paleolatitudes show stronger evidence of distinct growing seasons. Coastal areas likely experienced ...

Around the equator, for example, vast networks of channels spread from Martian highlands, branching like trees and emptying into lakes and even, possibly, an ocean. NASA’s Perseverance rover, which ...

Scientists believe the MFF’s ice, protected by layers of dust or ash, could reveal clues about Mars' ancient, water-rich past.

Mars, though appearing arid now, shows signs of a water-rich past, including remnants of river channels, ancient ocean beds, and water-carved valleys. This discovery of significant ice near Mars’s ...

At this point in time, the Sun crosses the celestial equator and moves north. In the Northern Hemisphere, the spring (vernal if you’re nasty) equinox arrives on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 5:01 ...

Thanks to a few well-funded labs like the one in Copenhagen, the gene time machine has never been so busy. There are genetic maps of saber-toothed cats, cave bears, and thousands of ancient humans ...

Ancient society may have carved 'sun stones' to end volcanic ... The relative ratio of sulphate deposition in Greenland and Antarctica implies the eruption was somewhere close to the equator, ...

Humans have known Earth is round for thousands of years — starting with the ancient Greeks, including Pythagoras, around 500 B.C. and confirmed by Aristotle a couple of centuries later.

The name is derived from “cold birth” in ancient Greek and is synonymous with climate upheaval and disruption of life on our planet – including Snowball Earth. While the triggers for the extreme cold ...