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The dispersal of the Vishnuonyx otters from the Indian subcontinent to Africa and Europe about 13 million years ago. The star (HAM 4) shows the position of the Hammerschmiede fossil site. Image: Nikos Kargopoulos
Fossils

New Fossil: A new species of otter discovered in Germany

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Molten lava from a Hawaiian volcano. Image: Willyam/Adobe
Volcanoes

What lies beneath: Volcanic secrets revealed

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The Kawhia giant penguin Kairuku waewaeroa. Image credit: Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image by media is granted by the artist, with credit.
Fossils

Giant Waikato penguin: School kids discover new species

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The rim of Cone D—inside the Okmok Volcano caldera—with the blue lake in the background. Credit: Nick Frearson
Volcanoes

A journey into an Alaskan volcano

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The extinction of their competitors allowed snakes to move into new niches and diversify enormously (Credit: Joschua Knüppe).
Dinosaur

Modern snakes evolved from a few survivors of dino-killing asteroid

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fossilized teeth from M. Latidens showing where cavities formed.
Fossils

Oldest known mammal cavities discovered in 55-million-year-old fossils suggests a sweet...

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Fossils

500-million-year-old fossil represents rare discovery of ancient animal in North America

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University of Tsukuba researchers have described a new apex predator from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, which coexisted with a smaller tyrannosauroid
Dinosaur

Who was king before Tyrannosaurus? Uzbek fossil reveals new top dino

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Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction. Illustration by Lars Fields, © Royal Ontario Museum.
Fossils

Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

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Jessica Pilarczyk (SFU) and collaborator Tina Dura (Virginia Tech) sample sediment cores from rice paddies of the Greater Tokyo Region that contain evidence for an earthquake from 1,000 years ago that potentially originated from a historically unconsidered earthquake source. Credit: SFU
Earthquake

Researchers identify new source for earthquakes and tsunamis in the Greater...

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Volcanic eruption
Volcanoes

Volcanic eruptions may have spurred first ‘whiffs’ of oxygen in Earth’s...

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Entombed in limestone blocks, the newly studied fossil is the first nearly complete skeleton of a pterosaur species that was first described in 2003. Photograph by Victor Beccari
Fossils

Confiscated fossil turns out to be exceptional flying reptile from Brazil

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Grand Canyon, Arizona
climate

Geologists dig into Grand Canyon’s mysterious gap in time

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Core samples for Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a. Credit: Elisabetta Erba.
Paleontology

Volcanism drove rapid ocean deoxygenation during the time of the dinosaurs

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Continental volcanic arcs such as this one in Kamchatka, Russia, are rapidly weathered, driving CO2 removal from the atmosphere over geological time. Credit: Tom Gernon, University of Southampton
Volcanoes

Volcanoes acted as a safety valve for Earth’s long-term climate

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A map of the World Ocean Floor. Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Earth

Geologists take Earth’s inner temperature using erupted sea glass

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A wide-angle aerial view looks southeast over Kīlauea’s summit caldera on July 22, 2021. Large cliffs formed during the 2018 collapses are visible on the left side of the photo. A recently active lava lake is visible in the lower right. (Image credit: M. Patrick, USGS)
Volcanoes

Giant friction experiment at Kilauea volcano

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The cliffs of the volcanic island of Santorini showing the layers of deposits from past volcanic eruptions. Credit: co-author Dr. Ralf Gertisser (Keele University).
plate tectonics

Sea levels influence eruptions on volcanic island

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A view of Kīlauea’s summit lava lake. The lava lake is contained within a crater, which is set within the larger Halema‘uma‘u Crater. New research aims to understand the activity that led to the eruption in 2018 in Kīlauea’s lower East Rift Zone. Credit: USGS
Volcanoes

Volcanic tremor and deformation at Kīlauea

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Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Fossils

Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

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