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A skeletal mount of the mosasaur 'Gnathomortis stadtmani' at BYU’s Eyring Science Center. USU Eastern paleontologist Josh Lively named the giant marine lizard that roamed the oceans of North America toward the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Courtesy BYU.
Dinosaur

Jaws of death: Paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard

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Artist’s impression of Spinosaurus. Credit: Davide Bonadonna
Dinosaur

Dino teeth research prove giant predatory dinosaur lived in water

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The 'slow earthquakes' that we cannot feel may help protect against the devastating ones
Earthquake

How earthquake swarms arise

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Nanolite 'snow' surrounding an iron oxide microlite 'Christmas tree'. Even these small 50 nm spheres are actually made up of even smaller nanolites aggregated into clumps. Christmas has come early this year for these researchers. Credit: Brooker/Griffiths/Heard/Cherns
Volcanoes

Scientists shine light on tiny crystals behind unexpected violent eruptions

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Life reconstruction of Euparkeria highlighting the body parts investigated in this study. Credit: Oliver Demuth
Dinosaur

Modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals step in the evolution of...

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Life reconstruction of the fossil bird Confuciusornis, one of the first beaked birds. Confuciusornis was roughly the size of a crow. It is known from hundreds of beautifully-preserved fossils, found in Early Cretaceous rocks from northeastern China. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto
Fossils

Bird beak revealed by laser imaging informs early beak function and...

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A bundle of giant sperm of the present-day ostracod crustacean Cyclocypris serena. Photo credit: R. Matzke-Karasz.
Fossils

World’s Oldest Animal Sperm Trapped in Amber

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Larger: A back-scattered electron image of a microscopic crystal of priscillagrewite-(Y) enclosed in fluorapatite. Inset: An optical image of the same crystal. Credit: American Mineralogist / Irina Galuskina et al.
Mineral Researches

Priscillagrewite : New mineral named in honor of renowned Nebraska geologist

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Ostracod crustaceans were entrapped in this tiny piece of Cretaceous amber found in Myanmar.
Fossils

The oldest known sperm cells

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Saturn's icy
Paleontology

Process that might have led to first organic molecules

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Central Alps of Switzerland
Continents

Formation of the Alps: Detaching and uplifting, not bulldozing

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Summary of major extinction events through time, highlighting the new, Carnian Pluvial Episode at 233 million years ago. Credit: D. Bonadonna/ MUSE, Trento
Paleontology

Discovery of a new mass extinction

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The dawn crested penguin Eudyptes atatu in New Zealand, three million years ago. Image by Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image for a press release is granted by the artist. Credit: Massey University
Fossils

Newly-described fossils reveal an ancient origin for New Zealand penguins

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A rough diamond from Kankan, Guinea, that was analyzed in a new study led by a PhD student at the U of A. The imperfections inside the diamond are small inclusions of a mineral called ferropericlase, which is from the lower mantle. Credit: Anetta Banas
Earth

Uncovering new understanding of Earth’s carbon cycle

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carbon cycle
Earth

Understanding Earth’s ‘deep-carbon cycle’

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Eurypterid specimen image: Images of the eurypterid specimen fossil that led to Lamsdell’s discovery. Credit: Melanie Hopkins Photo
Fossils

Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of...

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Researchers collected and analyzed permafrost from four sites in the Yukon to develop a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of extinct animals and thousands of plants from less than a gram of sediment. Credit: Tyler Murchie/ McMaster University
Paleontology

Thousands of species recorded in a speck of soil

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A plume of ash and dust rises from Pavlof Volcano on the Alaskan Peninsula in 2013. Credit: NASA
Volcanoes

Volcanic ash may have a bigger impact on the climate than...

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Enhanced map of hematite (red) on Moon using a spheric projection (nearside only). Credit: Shuai Li
Earth

Has Earth’s oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years?

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Seismogram
Earthquake

Superheated rocks deep underground help explain earthquake patterns

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