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Drops of seawater contain traces of an ancient world

Oxidised apatite inclusions. Credit: Dr Hugo Moreira

New research reveals connection between Earth’s atmospheric changes and mantle chemistry

Spectacular rainbow obsidian blade

The World’s Rarest and Most Expensive Types of Obsidian

Fossils have been found of several types of abelisaur showing the diversity of dinosaurs in Morocco at the end of the Cretaceous period. (Credit: Andrey Atuchin)

Newly discovered Fossils of “primitive cousins of T rex” shed light...

Plots of mineral modal abundance and the weight percentage of mineral-bound water (blue lines) for (a) metabasaltic and (b) metasedimentary rocks from the modern Cocos plate at 1.3 GPa and over the range of temperatures along the flat slab top beneath Guerrero.

Metasomatism and Slow Slip: Talc may make Mexico’s subduction zone more...

Dalian Coherent Light Source revealing vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of sulfur dioxide as an important prebiotic-O2 source. Credit: Yuan Kaijun

A possible trigger for Earth’s great oxidation event

A reconstruction of an Australian pterosaur

107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered in Australia

Image: Jorge Gonzalez This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

New dino, ‘Iani smithi,’ was face of a changing planet

Spinosaur tooth from the Wealden seen from two different angles.

Multiple species of semi-aquatic dinosaur may have roamed pre-historic Britain

Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh0150

New 3D images give never-seen-before views inside New Zealand’s largest fault

Rare Gems and Minerals in New Mexico

+30 Rare Gems and Minerals in New Mexico

Venetia Diamond Mine, South Africa. Photo by Dr Tom Gernon, University of Southampton

Scientists crack the code of what causes diamonds to erupt

Explosive lava spews from the latest eruption of the Fogo volcano located on the Cape Verde islands in November 2014. Science now knows that carbon dioxide – instead of water – triggered it. Credit: Ricardo Ramalho/Cardiff University

Carbon dioxide – not water – triggers explosive volcanoes

Close up image on one wall showing numerous depressions of hadrosaur footprints. The ice ax in the lower left of the frame is approximately 3 feet long, for scale. Photo by Patrick Druckenmiller

Scientists explore dinosaur ‘Coliseum’ in Denali National Park

Fossilized poop, called coprolites, collected in Nong Yakong village, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand. Coprolites are an important source for studying ancient parasites. Nonsrirach et al. under CC-BY 4.0

Fossil Poop “feces” infested with parasites from over 200 million years...

Reconstruction of Hupehsuchus about to engulf a shoal of shrimps. Artwork by Shunyi Shu, Photo Copyright © Long Cheng, Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey.

Whale-like filter-feeding discovered in prehistoric marine reptile

The fossilized cervical vertebra and overlaying osteoderms of the new archosaur species Mambachiton fiandohana. © Nesbitt et al.

New archosaur species shows that precursor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs was...

Impact craters and their broader structures can be visible in a geologic map, like a bullseye. But what geophysical traces remain at the structure’s outermost edges? Credit: Huber et al. (2023), JGR Planets

Earth’s most ancient impact craters are disappearing

Undersea images of lava from Kama'ehu volcano, contrasting fresh-looking young lavas (top) versus older sediment-covered lavas (bottom). The two images on the bottom are courtesy of JAMSTEC.

Hawai’i’s undersea volcano, Kama’ehu, erupted five times in past 150 years

Artistic reconstruction of Burgessomedusa by Christian McCall. © Christian McCall

Burgessomedusa phasmiformis.: Oldest known species of swimming jellyfish identified

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