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Fossil specimen of Habelia optata from the Royal Ontario Museum.

A 508 million year old sea predator with a ‘jackknife’ head

Wastewater injected in an underground reservoir layer crossed by a fault triggers an earthquake

Modeling the effects of wastewater injection

The Angmaat Formation above Tremblay Sound on the Baffin Island coast

Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago

Skull, Urkudelphis chawpipacha MO-1 (holotype) in right lateral view.

New ancient dolphin species Urkudelphis chawpipacha discovered in Ecuador

Yellowstone National Park

Heat from below Pacific Ocean fuels Yellowstone, study finds

A hidden diversity of half-billion-year-old microscopic animal fossils

An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in western Australia that is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.

Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5...

This is a 3.465 billion year-old fossil microorganism from Western Australia.

Ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life in the universe is common

Using JSC's JUQUEEN supercomputer, University of Cologne researchers were able to simulate the structure of silicon dioxide at a variety of different pressures. The image shows how the the shape and structure of the atoms change as pressure increases.

Computing the way to the center of the Earth

Digital reconstruction of the Canadian Arctic fossil bear

Primitive fossil bear with a sweet tooth identified from Canada’s High...

Thin section view of meteoritic ejecta deposit si

60 Million Year Old Meteorite Strike in Scotland

The Nazca plate moves eastwards with a rate of 6.6 cm per year.

Residual strain despite mega earthquake

The number of earthquakes striking south-central Kansas has skyrocketed

Geologists report new discoveries about Kansas, Oklahoma earthquakes

ancient giant penguin Kumimanu biceae

Ancient penguin was as big as a (human) Pittsburgh Penguin

skeleton of Rhaeticosaurus

The oldest plesiosaur was a strong swimmer

bubbly magma in laboratory

Chemical tipping point of magma determines explosive potential of volcanoes

Pseudooides

Fossil orphans reunited with their parents after half a billion years

A joint research team from the United States and China ventured to the Guliya Ice Cap in Tibet in 2015

Oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions

Hard tick grasping a dinosaur feather preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber.

Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking story

Small earthquakes (yellow stars) can be induced during hydraulic fracturing when high-pressure fluid (blue arrows) is pumped into horizontal wells to crack rock layers containing natural gas.

Small earthquakes at fracking sites may be early indicators of bigger...

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