U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

Tire tracks stretched across the flat lake bed to the horizon. We followed them in a Suzuki 4x4, looking for clues about what’s happened to ... face in a warming world, the starkest examples ...

For the first time ever, research led by one of Utrecht University's earth scientists—Dr ... Sea from the ocean and forming mega lake Paratethys, the largest lake ever. Palcu and his colleagues ...

Lake Baikal measures 12,239 square miles (31,700 square kilometers), making it Earth's seventh-largest lake. It is not only the world's oldest lake but also the deepest one, at about 1 mile (1.6 ...

Located in southern Siberia, Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, a natural wonder holding approximately 23,600km³ of water. The five Great Lakes in North America contain ...

a family of bony fish that found around the world that first appears in the fossil record more than 200 million years ago. The lake sturgeon is the oldest and largest native fish species in North ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...