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Chicago Archaeopteryx fossil specimen showing preserved bones, feathers, and wing structure in limestone slab

An Archaeopteryx fossil dating back some 150 million years, hidden away for decades and reanalyzed using CT scans and ultraviolet light, has finally revealed a detail that could settle a scientific debate that has raged for more than 160 years over how bird flight began

By Adrian Villellas

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April 8, 2026 at 5:09 AM

Preserved squid specimen identified as Mobydickia poseidonii, a new squid family discovered from a sperm whale stomach sample

It all began with a strange, squid-like mass found in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1955 and 1956, and decades later, scientists discovered that it was something far stranger than anyone could have imagined

By Sonia Ramírez

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April 6, 2026 at 3:19 AM

$For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant$

For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant

By ECONEWS

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April 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM

Green vegetation belt along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert showing reforestation efforts in arid northwest China

China is transforming the Takla Makan Desert, which at 337,000 km² is almost the size of Poland, into a “lung in the sand”: the 66 billion trees planted since 1978 have increased vegetation, multiplied rainfall during the wet season by 2.5 times, and even reduced local CO2 levels from 416 to 413 ppm

By Adrian Villellas

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April 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM

European eel Anguilla anguilla, a migratory fish now listed as critically endangered after decades of population decline.

The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban

By Sonia Ramírez

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April 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM

View of Earth from space illustrating rising global heat and oceans absorbing most of the planet’s excess energy

The data has the UN on high alert: Earth has just broken a nearly imperceptible climate record, and scientists believe this “heat debt” could eventually trigger heat waves, storms, and coastal events over the coming centuries

By Sonia Ramírez

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March 30, 2026 at 10:19 AM

Aerial view of giant circular seagrass rings in shallow water off Scotland, the mysterious underwater “donuts” baffling scientists

They are called “donuts” and look like fairy circles underwater, but science is baffled because no one yet knows what mechanism draws these perfect giant rings on the seabed off the coast of Scotland

By Kevin Montien

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March 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Aerial view of a scientific drilling camp on the ice in West Antarctica where researchers extracted a record 228-meter rock core

A team of scientists has drilled a massive hole in West Antarctica and extracted 228 meters of rock—the deepest sample of its kind ever obtained

By ECONEWS

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March 29, 2026 at 4:51 AM

Hybrid pig and wild boar animals in Fukushima’s exclusion zone, where escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the disaster

Fukushima surprises us once again, 15 years after the accident, with a strange hybrid of escaped pigs and wild boars, right in the middle of the exclusion zone

By ECONEWS

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March 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Artist’s reconstruction of Doolysaurus, a small juvenile dinosaur standing in a forest

What looked like a rock with a few legs and vertebrae ended up becoming a scientific sensation: that’s how Doolysaurus, South Korea’s new dinosaur, came to light

By ECONEWS

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March 27, 2026 at 9:22 AM

Reconstruction of Alnashetri, a small dinosaur from Patagonia that is key to understanding alvarezsaurs

It was the size of a crow and weighed less than 2.2 pounds; it lived 90 million years ago, and its nearly intact skeleton could finally resolve one of the most contentious debates in paleontolog

By ECONEWS

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March 26, 2026 at 5:24 AM

View of Earth showing a green wave moving northeast to illustrate global changes in vegetation

Earth’s “green wave” is changing course, and scientists are already observing a global shift toward the northeast that could accelerate over the course of this century

By Sonia Ramírez

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March 25, 2026 at 3:44 PM

A digital rendering of a hazy, deoxygenated future Earth orbiting a brightening Sun, illustrating atmospheric collapse.

The Earth could enter a phase with a weakly oxygenated or anoxic atmosphere, which would be a major red flag for our search for life on exoplanets

By ECONEWS

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March 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Map of Doggerland between Britain and mainland Europe with a highlighted outline and arrow

Scientists have found ancient DNA in 252 samples taken from the seafloor and have discovered that, 16,000 years ago, a lush and vibrant land existed beneath the North Sea

By ECONEWS

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March 24, 2026 at 12:09 PM

Large net lifting invasive Asian carp from the Kansas River during a fish removal operation aimed at reducing the spread of the species

What began as an ecological solution in the 1970s turned into a massive invasion that forced the removal of tens of thousands of pounds of fish

By Sonia Ramírez

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March 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Ocean sunfish floating near the surface of the sea

What seemed like a routine walk along the coast of Ravenna ended with the discovery of a giant sunfish, 8.2 feet long and weighing 882 pounds, that washed up dead on a beach in Italy; its mysterious death has baffled scientists in the Adriatic

By ECONEWS

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March 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM

Herd of European bison standing in a grassy field in Romania, illustrating the rewilding project linked to rising plant biomass

Bison are released in Romania, with results that surprise even zoologists, as the plant biomass in the area increases by 30%

By ECONEWS

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March 23, 2026 at 10:45 AM

Aerial view of La Serena reservoir and dam in Spain, where floodgates were opened during a rare high-water event

Spain’s largest reservoir opens its floodgates in a historic event: this has only happened four times in its 35 years of service

By ECONEWS

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March 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Satellite map showing sulfur dioxide emissions from Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano spreading across the Arabian Sea

After 12,000 years of silence, a volcano in Ethiopia has erupted again, reminding us that an inactive volcano is never truly extinct

By Sonia Ramírez

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March 22, 2026 at 9:17 AM

Map of the northeastern United States Atlantic coast showing offshore areas where a freshwater aquifer was discovered beneath the seabed

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of New York, there is a freshwater “bank” that could supply the city for 800 years. This has been confirmed by drilling 400 meters below the seabed

By ECONEWS

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March 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM

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Environment

An Archaeopteryx fossil dating back some 150 million years, hidden away for decades and reanalyzed using CT scans and ultraviolet light, has finally revealed a detail that could settle a scientific debate that has raged for more than 160 years over how bird flight began

It all began with a strange, squid-like mass found in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1955 and 1956, and decades later, scientists discovered that it was something far stranger than anyone could have imagined

For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant

The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban

The data has the UN on high alert: Earth has just broken a nearly imperceptible climate record, and scientists believe this “heat debt” could eventually trigger heat waves, storms, and coastal events over the coming centuries

They are called “donuts” and look like fairy circles underwater, but science is baffled because no one yet knows what mechanism draws these perfect giant rings on the seabed off the coast of Scotland

A team of scientists has drilled a massive hole in West Antarctica and extracted 228 meters of rock—the deepest sample of its kind ever obtained

Fukushima surprises us once again, 15 years after the accident, with a strange hybrid of escaped pigs and wild boars, right in the middle of the exclusion zone

What looked like a rock with a few legs and vertebrae ended up becoming a scientific sensation: that’s how Doolysaurus, South Korea’s new dinosaur, came to light

It was the size of a crow and weighed less than 2.2 pounds; it lived 90 million years ago, and its nearly intact skeleton could finally resolve one of the most contentious debates in paleontolog

Earth’s “green wave” is changing course, and scientists are already observing a global shift toward the northeast that could accelerate over the course of this century

The Earth could enter a phase with a weakly oxygenated or anoxic atmosphere, which would be a major red flag for our search for life on exoplanets

Scientists have found ancient DNA in 252 samples taken from the seafloor and have discovered that, 16,000 years ago, a lush and vibrant land existed beneath the North Sea

What began as an ecological solution in the 1970s turned into a massive invasion that forced the removal of tens of thousands of pounds of fish

What seemed like a routine walk along the coast of Ravenna ended with the discovery of a giant sunfish, 8.2 feet long and weighing 882 pounds, that washed up dead on a beach in Italy; its mysterious death has baffled scientists in the Adriatic

Bison are released in Romania, with results that surprise even zoologists, as the plant biomass in the area increases by 30%

Spain’s largest reservoir opens its floodgates in a historic event: this has only happened four times in its 35 years of service

After 12,000 years of silence, a volcano in Ethiopia has erupted again, reminding us that an inactive volcano is never truly extinct

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of New York, there is a freshwater “bank” that could supply the city for 800 years. This has been confirmed by drilling 400 meters below the seabed

A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift

A new diabetes pill lowered blood sugar and body weight more than oral semaglutide, but the convenience came with a harder trade-off

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

Engineers lowered a giant steel structure into the water off the Florida Keys where it will deliberately remain on the seabed, but what looks like abandoned industrial hardware is designed to become something alive

Scientists spent years testing a phenomenon researchers thought they understood, but the results revealed an unexpected mechanism hiding underneath and raised new questions about how the system actually works

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