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In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

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More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

In an incredible twist of fate, a retired chicken farmer unearthed a 240-million-year-old amphibian fossil in a pile of rocks ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

The largest known Martian meteorite ever found on Earth, identified as NWA 16788, was auctioned by Sotheby's in New York for $5.3 million including fees, exceeding initial estimates of $2 million to ...

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