A secret world of animals and plants—including unknown species—may live in warm caves under Antarctica's glaciers, scientists said Friday.
Earth Sciences
Sep 08, 2017
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The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech study led by the University ...
Archaeology
Jun 01, 2011
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Scientists discovered a new species of a peculiar cave-dwelling snail in one of the 20 deepest cave systems in the world, Lukina Jama–Trojama in Croatia. The newly discovered species belongs to a genus of minute air-breathing ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2013
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Eastern Asia, Western Asia, Japan, Beringia and even Europe have all been suggested origination points for the earliest humans to enter the Americas because of apparent differences in cranial form between today's Native Americans ...
Archaeology
May 15, 2014
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Could there be more biological treasures awaiting discovery in Asia's limestone cave systems?
Plants & Animals
Dec 03, 2012
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Archaeologists and divers on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula announced Wednesday that they found a passage connecting two underwater caves, creating what they say is the world's longest continuous flooded cave.
Archaeology
Jan 18, 2018
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A team of scientists specializing in cave biodiversity from the South China Agricultural University (Guangzhou) unearthed a treasure trove of rare blind cave beetles. The description of seven new species of underground Trechinae ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2014
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In a recent Geology paper geologists from the universities of Innsbruck and Leeds report on ancient cave systems discovered near the summits of the Allgau Mountains that preserved the oldest radiometrically dated dripstones ...
Earth Sciences
May 02, 2011
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Who knows what wonders may lie beneath our feet. Herds of prehistoric creatures in deep subterranean caverns were described in Jules Verne's novel Journey to The Centre of The Earth. And when 17th century scientists discovered ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2016
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What might look like a dangling hamster ball is actually a robotic sphere to explore the depths of lunar caves.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 24, 2021
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