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Galleria delle Stalattiti, Corchia Cave. Credit: Linda Tegg

What causes an ice age to end?

Credit: MARCAN

Under-sea freshwater reserves found near Canterbury

Japan's risk of giant tsunamis may have grown when the angle of a down-going slab of ocean crust declined. Top: ocean crust (right) slides under continental crust at a steep angle, causing faulting (red lines) in seafloor sediments piled up behind. Bottom: as the angle shallows, stress is transferred to sediments piled onto the continental crust, and faults develop there. Blue dots indicate resulting earthquakes. At left in both images, the change in angle also shifts the region where magma fueling volcanoes is generated, pushing eruptions further inland. Credit: Adapted from Oryan and Buck, Nature Geoscience 2020

Shifts in deep geologic structure may have magnified great 2011 Japan...

Burmese amber with Oculudentavis skull nearly perfectly preserved inside. Credit: Lida Xing

Hummingbird : Smallest Known Dinosaur Found in Amber

Huge Desert Rose Selenite Crystal cluster

Desert Rose : What is Desert Rose? How Do Desert Roses...

Collection of various fluorescent minerals under ultraviolet UV-A, UV-B and UV-C light. Chemicals in the rocks absorb the ultraviolet light and emit visible light of various colors, a process called fluorescence. Credit: Hannes Grobe/AWI

Fluorescence : Why Minerals Fluoresce?

Meganeura

Meganeura : The largest insect ever existed was a giant dragonfly

Ancient Armadillo

Ancient Armadillo The Size Of A Car Discovered By Farmer In...

Aneuretopsychidae from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. Credit: NIGPAS

Amber specimens reveal origin of long mouthpart of scorpionflies

Bastnaesite (the reddish parts) in Carbonatite. Bastnaesite is an important ore for rare earth elements, one of the mineral commodities identified as most at-risk of supply disruption by the USGS in a new methodology. Credit: Scott Horvath, USGS

Where is the greatest risk to our mineral resource supplies?

The rising Earth from the perspective of the moon.

What other planets can teach us about Earth

Fossilised threads - some as long as four metres - connecting organisms known as rangeomorphs, which dominated Earth's oceans half a billion years ago. Credit: Alex Liu

Half billion-year-old ‘social network’ observed in early animals

The SHIRE project, which contributed resources to this research, is investigating seamounts within the Hikurangi Trench, to learn how they generate or dampen earthquakes at different stages of subduction. This seismic image shows a seamount known as Puke Seamount, colliding with New Zealand. Image: SHIRE/Andrew Gase.

Sinking sea mountains make and muffle earthquakes

Research suggest that rocks colliding inside fault zones, like this one in Maine, may contribute to damaging high-frequency earthquake vibrations. Credit: Julia Carr

Researchers develop new explanation for destructive earthquake vibrations

Scientists used the model to calculate seismic risk in the L.A. Basin

Source of Indonesian earthquakes and tsunamis located

Benjamin Johnson of Iowa State University woks at an outcrop in remote Western Australia where geologists are studying 3.2-billion-year-old ocean crust. Photo by Jana Meixnerova. Photos provided by Benjamin Johnson.

Geologists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed...

Inside the Rainbow Tunnel. Credit: Jeff Glover

World’s Largest Fluorescent Rock Found in New Jersey

A tiny lizard forefoot of the genus Anolis is trapped in amber that is about 15 to 20 million years old. Credit: Jonas Barthel

Rare lizard fossil preserved in amber

Maculaferrum blaisi, described in a study published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, is the first hemipteran insect (true bug) to be discovered at the Redmond Formation, a fossil site from the Cretaceous period near Schefferville, Labrador. Credit: Alexandre V. Demers-Potvin

Fossilized wing gives clues about Labrador’s biodiversity during the Cretaceous

Mystery has long surrounded the evolution of Facivermis, a worm-like creature that lived approximately 518 million years ago in the Cambrian period. Credit: Franz Anthony

Early worm lost lower limbs for tube-dwelling lifestyle

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