This Otherworldly Wilderness Is Called the ‘Most Alien Landscape’ in the U.S.—and It’s a Dupe for Turkey’s Cappadocia

Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in New Mexico after sunset. Credit: Sean Pavone / For centuries, travelers and historians have ...
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New Fossils, Including One That Looks Like the Sandworm from Dune, Rewrite the Dawn of Animal Life

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...
Scientific American

‘Jaw-dropping’ fossils reset the clock on when complex animals evolved

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

10 U.S. Places with Alien Landscapes

From White Sands and the Great Sand Dunes to Bryce, Bisti, Bonneville, and Petrified Forest, these 10 U.S. landscapes feel almost extraterrestrial, shaped not by lava but by gypsum, salt, sandstone, ...