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The Great Escarpment in Karoo National Park, South Africa, looking across the Lower Karoo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago...

This slab of sandstone has been on display since 1896, showing off the scaly footprints of a prosauropod dinosaur. Scientists only recently realized that the deep grooves on the left may be the track of a sailing stone. Credit: Lull, R.S., 1915

Sailing stone track discovered ‘hiding in plain sight’ in dinosaur fossil

Volcano F. Credit: GEOMAR

Volcano F is the Origin of the Floating Stones

A new petit-spot volcano at the oldest section of the Pacific Plate Credit: Tohoku University

Researchers discover a new, young volcano in the Pacific

A modern-day sea lily in the Marianas region. Credit: (c) NOAA Ocean Research and Exploration

480 million year old fossils reveal sea lilies’ ancient roots

The deep structure of the continent Antarctica. Credit: Planetary Visions (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions)

The Antarctic: Data about the structure of the icy continent

Illustration of the newly described Kupoupou stilwelli by Jacob Blokland, Flinders University. Credit: Jacob Blokland, Flinders University

When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died

The ‘slow earthquakes’ that we cannot feel may help protect against...

Seismogram

Analyzing seismic patterns to forecast the magnitude of the largest earthquake...

New research is shedding light on how and where ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs lived. Credit: Julius Csotonyi

95-million-year-old fossil reveals new group of pterosaurs

A representation of a plesiosaur - living reconstruction

Divers of the past : Plesiosaur – Why did the size...

Kilauea

California is famous for earthquakes, wildfires and Volcanoes

Earth

How ancient microbes created massive ore deposits, set the stage for...

Microscopic structures created in the lab. Credit: Sean McMahon

Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars

This figure illustrates how inorganic carbon cycles through the mantle more quickly than organic carbon, which contains very little of the isotope carbon-13. Both inorganic and organic carbon are drawn into Earth's mantle at subduction zones (top left).

Study points to one cause for several mysteries linked to breathable...

Distribution of springtails on termite and ant hosts within ~ 16 Ma old Dominican amber.

16-million-year-old fossil shows springtails hitchhiking on winged termite

Researchers employed 20 kilometers (pink) of a 51-kilometer undersea fiber-optic cable, normally used to communicate with an off-shore science node (MARS, Monterey Accelerated Research System), as a seismic array to study the fault zones under Monterey Bay.

Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network

volcanic eruptions

Scientists unravel the mystery of volcanic eruptions

Spherules in the Barberton greenstone belt in the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa. Credit: Lowe et al., 2014.

Extra-terrestrial impacts may have triggered ‘bursts’ of plate tectonics

Oblique view of the risk map for lava flow inundation on the flanks of Mt. Etna for the next 50 years.

Living at the edge of an active volcano: Risk from lava...

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