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Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

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About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

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The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...