If there was once life on the red planet, sedimentary deposits in the coastal shelf might have preserved evidence of it, just as Earth's coastal sediments at times hold fossils from the continents, the researchers noted.
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Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2026
Trails thread through remnants of the same ancient sea that once also flowed over South Dakota's Badlands National Park—keep an eye out for fossils.
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Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
17 Apr. 2026
Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).
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