Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 4, 2020
Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years old

Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years old

Coronavirus may have inadvertently caused Earth to vibrate less, with lockdown measures leading to a huge drop in the use of industrial machinery and transportation around the world.

As COVID-19 has hitchhiked around the globe, causing lockdowns, pneumonia and fear, scientists have been racing to determine where the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has come from.

Peacock spiders keep dancing their way into our hearts. They’re tiny, they’re colourful, they’re fluffy and they have killer moves.

Mauro Morandi found serenity in solitude decades before self-isolation became the norm.

The world has some good news to look forward to amid the novel coronavirus outbreak: a hole in the ozone layer is in recovery.

Where on Earth, wondered Henri Weimerskirch, were all the penguins?

Sasquatch. Bigfoot. Yeti. There are many monikers for the large and mysterious upright bi-pedal mammal that has allegedly roamed the world’s forests for hundreds of years. A long-told legend in many cultures: sightings of the creature have been reported from the Himalayas to the woods of Central Oregon. Although no definitive proof exists, reports of human encounters keep piling up.

In northwestern Wyoming, in the center of Yellowstone National Park, a bubbling caldera is the scar of a 640,000-year-old, gargantuan volcanic eruption.

A curious set of photographs have emerged showing an alleged Sasquatch looking in through a man’s window.