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Scientists announce that they have identified fossil remains of the "Ichthyotitan", the largest marine reptile currently known, in the Westbury Formation in England.
2024-04-17

A study in "Science Advances" reveals that Chilean Antarctic Institute scientists have discovered fossils from an unprecedented herbivorous hadrosaur called "Gonkoken nanoi", which inhabited Patagonia 72 million years ago.
2023-06-16

Satellite imagery shows that a big chunk of ice shattered into many small pieces from the last remaining ice shelf in Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, Greenland.
2020-09-14

Analysis of ancient ice cores extracted from Greenland dates an eruption on Eldgjá volcano in Iceland. Iceland's largest eruption in the last 2,000 years was described in ancient poem Völuspá.
2018-03-20

A newly-published paper suggests that some tardigrades may outlive most life on Earth.
2017-07-15

Greenland's government calls for an early election on November 28 after an expenses scandal prompts Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond to step down as leader of the governing Siumut party. [http:--www.afp.com-en-news-greenland-government-calls-election-amid-pm-expenses-scandal (AFP)]date=August 2019
2014-10-1

3 Greenpeace activists successfully evade a Danish warship to scale an oil rig off the coast of Greenland, attempting to begin deepwater drilling in the arctic.
2011-05-29

A new species of ancient crocodile, "Khoratosuchus jintasakuli", is identified from a fossil in Thailand. [https:--web.archive.org-web-20101202152121-http:--www.npr.org-2010-11-25-131592406-100-million-year-old-crocodile-species-discovered (NPR)] 10.1144-SP315.13 ("Geol. Soc., Lond., Spec. Pub.")
2010-11-25

American scientists announce an ice sheet has broken from Greenland's Petermann Glacier.
2010-08-6