of Mars’ Jezero Crater is far more complex than orbital observations previously suggested. Rather than a simple ancient lakeshore, the region known as the Margin Unit appears to have been transformed by at least three distinct episodes of water...

Divers probing a supposed shipwreck under Lake Ontario uncovered an unexpected, mysterious object that defies typical wreck expectations. A team of Canadian divers probing Lake Ontario for a 1917 shipwreck instead encountered a two‑masted schooner that...

that dominate popular imagination, this roughly 2.5-meter-long predator appears to have been an inhabitant of freshwater lake ecosystems during the Santonian age of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 84 million years ago. The findings, detailed in the...

researchers previously imagined. While orbital data led scientists to believe the region was defined primarily by ancient lake deposits, ground-level analysis has revealed a far more intricate sequence of environmental shifts shaped by water. The latest...

intact for millennia by the very rising tides that once forced their inhabitants to abandon their homes. The history of the lake is a chronicle of a shifting environment. Long before it was a freshwater basin, the region was a coastal valley carved by...

volcano, which sits about 1,350 kilometers (840 miles) from the Geographic South Pole, is best known for its persistent lava lake. In addition to the usual volcanic gases, Erebus releases a fine dust of gold that can travel up to a thousand kilometres...

A 1980s Salt Lake City document dealer forged historic papers that duped experts and church leaders, leading to a high‑profile scandal. In the 1980s, a Salt Lake City dealer of rare manuscripts manufactured a series of counterfeit documents that duped...

theories. A collaborative team of paleontologists has uncovered a remarkably intact dinosaur skeleton along the banks of Lake Kariba in northern Zimbabwe. The specimen, assigned to a new species, marks only the fifth dinosaur ever identified from...

Muddy lakeshore frozen in time yields a rare fossil find—ancient footprints that reveal details bones can’t provide. Footprints preserved in lake‑edge sediments near Lake Turkana, northern Kenya, have provided a rare glimpse into the life of the...

a negative-energy ghost. Ripples Without a Pebble To understand why this matters, it helps to use an analogy. Imagine a calm lake. The flat surface represents the lowest-energy state of the water. Normally, ripples appear only when energy is added, such...

scale of Taiwan’s forest giants. Subsequent expeditions shifted focus toward regions surrounding Mt. Benya and Great Ghost Lake, where anecdotal reports hinted at additional colossal specimens. A research team climbs the massive Taiwania fir discovered...

long overshadowed by its more famous evolutionary counterparts. These impressions, uncovered in the ancient mud of a former lakeshore, provide a rare look at a hominin species primarily defined until now by its distinctively robust skull and heavy jaw....

have officially described a new dinosaur species, Musango matusadonaensis, unearthed along the shoreline of Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba. Dating back more than 200 million years to the Triassic period, the creature provides a crucial look at the evolutionary...

missions have revealed compelling evidence that Mars was once warmer and wetter than it is today. Ancient river channels, lake beds, and sedimentary rocks suggest that liquid water flowed across the Martian surface for extended periods. These...

rock layers and mineral formations retain evidence of ancient environments. Perseverance Uncovers the Remnants of an Ancient Lake The panorama captured by Perseverance focuses on an area known as “Lac de Charmes”, situated near the rim of Jezero Crater....

QFB at CUCEI and a master’s degree. Image credit: Adriana González González Santos’s research has taken him to the depths of Lake Chapala, Mexico’s largest lake, where he is applying metagenomics to study genetic material and improve water safety. His...

faster than it could spread, producing stacked, curved layers that record rapid sediment influx. Jawbone Canyon and Dry Lake sites with preserved wind ripple structures. Credit: Geology Six distinct packages of ripple layers were identified within the...

geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor first documented the phenomenon during his 1911 expedition, the crimson discharge into Lake Bonney was assumed to be algae‑driven. Subsequent investigations have replaced that hypothesis with a more complex explanation...

Stuttgart Regional Council confirmed that the timbers belonged to a flat-bottomed cargo ship, a design frequently used on Lake Constance during the medieval period. According to Aline Kottmann, a specialist with the State Office for Monument...

providing a more gradual and observable spectacle. Jupiter’s path behind the moon as seen from various cities. From Salt Lake City and Denver, only Jupiter’s emergence from behind the moon’s dim, Earth-lit limb will be visible. Celestial north is up,...