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New research shows La Niña may have driven the collapse of deep-sea corals in the Galápagos, lasting over 1,000 years.

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It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison "Jack" Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon's surface to begin ...

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...