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Imagine a world where pigeon-sized dragonflies soar above spiders with half-meter-long legs, where 2-meter-long millipedes slither and 20-kilogram scorpions hunt. About 300 million years ago, such ...

Bob Whisonant is a Civil War buff with a peculiar way of looking at the Civil War. If you ask him to talk about, say, the Battle of Antietam, he might begin, “Well, it all started 500 million years ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BATH — Maine’s First Ship and the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust invite geology ...

Geology as medicine and medics as geologists / C.J. Duffin -- Lithotherapeutical research sources from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century / C.J. Duffin -- Cryptopalaeontology / E. Liñán, M. Liñán ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Marine and coastal geoscience play a critical role in understanding ancient and modern geological history, offshore and coastal hazards, and climate change. Deep-water ...

The Cable Natural History Museum recently opened a new exhibit, “The Northwoods ROCKS! Where geology is the foundation for fun!” Naturalist Emily Stone says people of all ages can enjoy it. “It ...

No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...

A practicing geologist can benefit from the history of geology professionally in two main ways: by learning about past mistakes so as not to repeat them and by finding out about different ways to ...

For many years, Titan’s thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn’s largest moon appeared through telescopes as a hazy orange orb, in contrast ...

This story was first published in KCUR's Creative Adventure newsletter. You can sign up to receive stories like this in your inbox every Tuesday. To understand local lithology is to understand Kansas ...