Report: 13 Great Lakes’ Worth of Water Underlies the Contiguous United States
It’s not easy to determine how much water there is across a landscape. A measly 1% of Earth’s…
67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing
A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in…
In Nepal, the world’s smallest otter continues to elude researchers
The Asian small-clawed otter was rediscovered in Nepal in 2024 after 185 years. Since then, however, it’s…
North American ice sheets drove most of the sea-level rise after the last ice age
When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by…