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Scientists have uncovered a vast graveyard of ancient marine reptiles hidden under a glacier in southern Chile. In a new study published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin, the researchers document the discovery of the remains of 46 ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs (marine reptiles) at the Tyndall Glacier in the Torres del Paine National Park of southern Chile.

The main cause of the monarch butterfly’s decline is the loss of milkweed — its food — in its U.S. breeding grounds, a new study has found. That all but confirms that the spread of genetically modified crops is indirectly killing the monarch. The groundbreaking study was published today in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

A Hawaii state government aerospace agency recently published forgotten photos showing Apollo astronauts training on volcanic terrain in Hawaii for missions to the moon.

Scientists have revealed that a 16-foot, 900-pound ancient crocodile relative swam in the same waters as the 58-foot long snake Titanoboa, around 60 million years ago.

NASA released a new panorama Tuesday that looks deep and far into the universe and for the first time includes ultraviolet light, which is normally not visible to the human eye. It shows up in the photo as bright baby blue with spinning galaxies, which are about 5 to 10 billion years old, not too old or young in cosmic …

Researchers are now able to measure minuscule differences in temperature thanks to a new thermometer made from light. According to an article published by Physical Review Letters magazine, the thermometer is able to measure temperature differences to 30 billionths of a degree in one second and uses light to measure temperature.

FLIGHTS between Australia and Bali have mostly resumed as ash plumes from a volcano on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumbawa continue to disperse. Two Jetstar flights out of Perth and bound for Denpasar were cancelled on Monday morning but services scheduled for later in the day were expected to go ahead.

Good news at Winnipeg Beach. Manitoba Conservation’s Rob Nedotiafko says the potash put into the harbour to rid the waters of zebra mussels is having an impact. He says it’s the same elsewhere.

A new landmark study, published last week in Science, has found that the current rate of species extinctions is more than 1,000 times greater than their natural rate, calculated from the fossil record and genetic data spanning millions of years, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. The new study used the fossil record and genetic data to determine that …

A woman suffered an apparent shark bite to her leg while swimming in the Intracoastal Waterway off Fort Lauderdale. Broward Health Medical Center officials said the woman was undergoing surgery late Sunday afternoon. According to a television report, she was later released.

A giant planet previously thought impossible to exist has just been discovered by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Kepler-10c, located 560 light-years from us, is 17 times heavier than the Earth. It was previously believed that such a world couldn’t exist, because its mass would attract hydrogen atoms and form a “gas giant” such as Jupiter in …