Extended Continental Shelf likened to a new 'basement'—nearly 60% of Alaska. Mead Treadwell of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission explains.

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Deep under almost three kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists expected to find a frozen archive of Earth’s distant past.

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By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...