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Artistic reconstruction of the type of weevil studied. Credit: James McKay

Fossil record analysis hints at evolutionary origins of insects’ structural colours

Things are really quieting down on planet Earth. Credit: The Royal Observatory of Belgium.

Thanks to COVID-19, nothing’s moving—and seismologists can tell

Volcanic gas emissions in Northern Iceland

New geochemical tool reveals origin of Earth’s nitrogen

Volcanic eruption

Volcanic carbon dioxide emissions helped trigger Triassic climate change

Minerals on hand

Rare Gems & Minerals in Texas

Some of the world's oldest known dinosaur eggs and embryos. The clutch of Massospondylus carinatus eggs discovered in 1976 in Golden Gate Highland National Park, South Africa. Credit: Brett Eloff

The World’s Oldest Dinosaur Eggs

Life restoration of Elessaurus gondwanoccidens, from the Sanga do Cabral Formation (Lower Triassic), Brazil. Credit: Márcio L. Castro

New fossil from Brazil hints at the origins of the mysterious...

The common name “coquí” describes various species of frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus and is derived from two species’ distinctive chirping calls. The common coquí, Eleutherodactylus coquí, is the national symbol of Puerto Rico. Photo courtesy of Alberto Lopez Torres

Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog

These are figures from the Nature Geoscience groundwater aquifer paper. Credit: Wallis et al

River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic

This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or the magnetosphere. Earth’s magnetic field origins are still a mystery, a new MIT study finds. Credit: Greg Shirah and Tom Bridgman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Origins of Earth’s magnetic field remain a mystery

The ash plume from the Kilauea volcano on the big island of Hawaii was pictured May 12, 2018, from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

New NASA radar looks to monitor volcanoes and earthquakes from space

We know that birds, such as this Archaeopteryx, evolved from dinosaurs but there have been persistent questions about how common the feathers were amongst their extinct relatives © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

The first dinosaurs probably didn’t have feathers

One of the biggest gaps in the arthropod fossil record was what the ancestors to millipedes and centipedes looked like, but now that gap has been filled. Credit: Katja Schulz/Wikimedia Commons

Aquatic ancestors of terrestrial millipedes characterized for the first time

Image: Rowan Webb

UNE creates world’s first online human skeleton

Although turtles belong to the reptiles, their skulls differs markedly from those of other members of this group. Credit: I. Werneburg

Shell puzzle: An additional piece added to the evolution of turtles

Holotype of calamitalean sphenopsid Annularia paisii sp. nov. showing an insect-induced gall

Annularia paisii : New species of ancient horsetail with gall with...

Flake of clear yellow amber from Anglesea, Victoria containing a new, beautifully preserved biting midge ca. 41 million years old. Credit: Enrique Peñalver.

Fossil trove sheds light on ancient antipodean ecology

Minoan eruption of Thera. Satellite image of Thera, November 21, 2000. Credit: NASA, public domain

Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date

A seismogram of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami recorded at Weston Observatory in Massachusetts, USA. Credit: Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Sediments may control location, magnitude of megaquakes

The team's experiments compared carbon's compatibility with the silicates that comprise the Earth's mantle (outer circle) to its compatibility with the iron that comprises the planet's core (inner circle) while under conditions mimicking the Earth's interior during its formative period. They found that more carbon would have stayed in the mantle than previously thought. Credit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani Lee, and the late Erik Hauri.

Most of Earth’s carbon was hidden in the core during its...

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