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Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.