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Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

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Geologists working in central China have quietly confirmed a gold discovery that now sits among the largest ever documented.

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A groundbreaking study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences suggests that a remote rock quarry in Algeria ...

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart.