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On the remote Kerguelen Islands, DNA has revealed a brand-new penguin species — the southeastern gentoo, Pygoscelis kerguelensis — and settled a 100-year debate by splitting the gentoo penguin into four distinct species.
A newly confirmed filament of hot gas in the Shapley Supercluster is turning one of cosmology’s most beautiful ideas into something measurable. By tracing a glowing thread between four galaxy clusters, astronomers have found a vivid piece of the universe’s long-missing ordinary matter.
A new Smithsonian display makes one deep-time lesson instantly vivid: some ammonite shells still flash rainbow color 69 to 72 million years after they formed. Here’s why those fossils glow, what they reveal about North America’s inland sea, and why shell lovers should care.
Pick up a shell on today’s shoreline and you are holding the long afterglow of one of Earth’s biggest turning points. A new Stanford-led study shows how the Great Dying 252 million years ago helped decide which shells would become the familiar stars of modern beaches.
When the water off Koh Phra Thong begins to glow electric blue-green, it's not magic — it's one of the most extraordinary living light shows on Earth. And for generations, the Moken have been reading that glow like a living map of the ocean.
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