A century-old assumption about river behavior crumbles: meanders may have wound across barren Earth...
SCIENCE
July 20, 2026
Geologists have taught for decades that rivers needed plants to form their distinctive S-shaped meanders, but Stanford University researchers published a study in August 2025 showing that rivers were carving those curves long before vegetation existed on la
A century-old assumption about river behavior crumbles: meanders may have wound across barren Earth long before the first plant took root.
A century-old assumption about river behavior crumbles: meanders may have wound across barren Earth long before the first plant took root.
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