#Geologist

Source: Futility Closet American geologist Clarence King led a strange double life in the late 1800s: He invented a second identity as a black railroad porter so he could marry the woman he loved, and then spent 13 years living separate lives in both white and black America. In this week’s

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura When the Princeton University geologists Akshay Mehra and Adam Maloof, Mehra’s advisor, wanted to learn more about Cloudina—a fossilized organism that lived 545 million years ago—they decided to pulverize it. As part of their work for a recent

Author: Thomas Sumner / Source: Science News for Students Lurking beneath New Zealand is a long-hidden continent, geologists now propose. They call it Zealandia. Don’t expect it to soon end up on a map on your classroom wall, though. Nobody is in charge of officially designating a new continent.