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The Hells Bells in the El Zapote cave near Puerto Morelos on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Unique underwater stalactites

Geology Page - November 26, 2017

In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave. The...

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Paleontologists discover evidence of new types of dinosaurs in Idaho including...

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Extinct kitten-sized hunter discovered

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Researchers collected and analyzed permafrost from four sites in the Yukon to develop a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of extinct animals and thousands of plants from less than a gram of sediment. Credit: Tyler Murchie/ McMaster University

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