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The complex history of Earth’s magnetic reversals

Volgatitan simbirskiensis anterior caudal vertebra

Scientists find new giant dinosaur

Maohokite

Scientists discover possible mantle mineral

This illustration shows the percentage of marine animals that went extinct at the end of the Permian era by latitude, from the model (black line) and from the fossil record (blue dots). A greater percentage of marine animals survived in the tropics than at the poles. The color of the water shows the temperature change, with red being most severe warming and yellow less warming. At the top is the supercontinent Pangaea, with massive volcanic eruptions emitting carbon dioxide. The images below the line represent some of the 96 percent of marine species that died during the event. Includes fossil drawings by Ernst Haeckel/Wikimedia; Blue crab photo by Wendy Kaveney/Flickr; Atlantic cod photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld/Wikimedia; Chambered nautilus photo by ©2010 John White/CalPhotos. Credit: Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch/University of Washington

Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping...

A fossil trilobite with its complex eye

Enhancing our vision of the past

Spectacular soft-tissue fossil

Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage

Magma Chamber

Volcanoes fed by ‘mush’ reservoirs rather than molten magma chambers

Yellowstone National Park

A microbe’s membrane helps it survive extreme environments

The iron cycle in the ocean

Tracing iron in the North Pacific

Main slab of Pengornithid Enantiornithine

Medullary bone found in Cretaceous birds

Millook Haven Beach, England

Millook Haven Beach, England

Cyanobacteria up close

Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5...

This is an artistic reconstruction of a mother and calf of Maiabalaena nesbittae nursing offshore of Oregon during the Oligocene, about 33 million years ago.

Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths

Teilhardina brandti

Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America,...

Mount Etna Eruption on Jan. 12, 2011.

New automated volcano warning system forecasts imminent eruptions

For her research Witkowski collected seawater with fresh, modern algae to test potential indicators of the past.

Fossil algae reveal 500 million years of climate change

Mosquitoes in the amber.

Blood-sucking flies have been spreading malaria for 100 million years

Deception Island.

A large volcanic eruption shook Deception Island 3,980 years ago

Close-up of the meteorite fragment showing the fusion crust.

Detective mission to characterise and trace the history of a new...

During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards.

Gigantic mammal ‘cousin’ discovered

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