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University of Houston researchers John Suppe, left, Jonny Wu and Yi-Wei Chen have reconstructed the ancient plates under the Andes Mountains. Credit: University of Houston

Scientists reconstruct ancient lost plates under Andes mountains

Complete fossil and line drawing of Eretmorhipis carrolldongi.

A reptile platypus from the early Triassic

One of the tiny fossilized teeth recovered from Galagadon, so named for the shape of its teeth, which resemble the spaceships in the video game Galaga. Credit: Copyright Terry Gates

Ancient carpet shark discovered with ‘spaceship-shaped’ teeth

Crocodiles have complex past

Tethymyxine tapirostrum, is a 100-million-year-old, 12-inch long fish embedded in a slab of Cretaceous period limestone from Lebanon, believed to be the first detailed fossil of a hagfish.

Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree

This is a false color electron-microscope image of a resorbed apatite crystal (green) in pitchstone glass (blue). The composition of the pitchstone glass and the characteristic mineral textures are identical in the studied pitchstone sites of the Sgùrr of Eigg and Òigh-sgeir, although over 30km apart, indicating a common origin, and thus a large and geographically widespread volcanic eruption. Credit: Valentin Troll

Large volcanic eruption in Scotland may have contributed to prehistoric global...

International Chronostratigraphic Chart “Version 2018/08”

International Chronostratigraphic Chart “Version 2018/08”

Diamond

New study quantifies deep reaction behind ‘superdeep’ diamonds

Image depicts the change in impact rate modeled in this paper. Some of the craters used in the study on both the moon and Earth are highlighted in the background. Credit: Data from NASA GSFC / LRO / Arizona State University; Artwork by Rebecca Ghent

Scientists find increase in asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying...

The Santiaguito volcano: The Santiaguito dome complex in Guatemala regularly spews out plumes of gas and volcanic ash.

Geological fingerprinting of volcanic ash

Where plates collide: The main frontal thrust (red line) extends over the entire length of the Himalayas. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Waiting for the complete rupture

Drilling deep for clues on earthquakes

New computer modeling approach could improve understanding of megathrust earthquakes

Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature

CHW 189 from the private collection of Herman Winkelhorst (Netherlands). The neck of the animal is excellently preserved, but the rest is not. One possible explanation may be that this is the result of uneven colonization of the carcass by microorganisms and algae, which created a protective layer especially around the neck

Fossil deposit is much richer than expected

Sampling Hot Molten Lava

Bismuth Crystal “Artificially grown bismuth crystal”

Findings about the effect of a volcano's age on its likelihood to erupt will be applied to the Merapi volcano in Indonesia, among others.

How to predict when a volcano will erupt

Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere

Part of a quilted Ediacaran fossil is partly covered by ancient wind-drift from Namibia. Image courtesy of Greg Retallack.

Thin layers of sediment point to early arrival of life on...

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