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Life reconstruction of ichthyosaur skull. Credit: Bob Nicholls (Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum)

Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric...

Map of the locations and depths of the deep low-frequency (DLF) earthquakes beneath the Laacher See Volcano ("Lake Laach Volcano") in Germany. Brittle earthquakes are marked as circles, DLF events as stars. Credit: Hensch et al.

Deep low-frequency earthquakes indicate migration of magmatic fluids beneath Laacher See...

Doctoral students Daniel Miller, in the water, with Helen Habicht and Benjamin Keisling, handle two recaptured sediment traps from an unusually deep lake in central Maine, where they collected 136 sediment samples spanning the 900-year time span to reconstruct the longest and highest-resolution climate record for the Northeastern United States to date.

Geoscientists reconstruct ‘eye-opening’ 900-year Northeastern U.S. climate record

A snapshot of seismic data taken at a single station during the peak of an aftershock sequence

Q&A: Creating a “Virtual Seismologist”

Four complete Tragychrysa ovoruptora newborns preserved together with egg shell remains and one visible egg burster (right inset). Credit: Modified from the open access article published in Palaeontology: 'The hatching mechanism of 130-million-year-old insects: an association of neonates, egg shells, and egg bursters in Lebanese amber'

Newborn insects trapped in amber show first evidence of how to...

Mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs

Saltriovenator zanellai

The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps

millipede

450 fossilized millipedes found in 100-million-year-old amber

Panoplosaurus mirus and Euoplocephalus tutus.

Huge armored dinosaurs battled overheating with nasal air-conditioning

Megalosaurus

Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain’s tropical Jurassic past

‘Treasure trove’ of dinosaur footprints found in southern England

Rare-earth elements discovered in Georgia kaolin mines, study finds

Close-up of a looping millipede death-trail.

Early animals: Death near the shoreline, not life on land

Nanjinganthus fossil

Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought

Crittendeceratops

Horned dinosaur Crittendenceratops discovered in Arizona

Map of landslide

Deadly Indonesian tsunami was unleashed by landslide in Palu Bay, study...

Daohugou pterosaur

New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years

Yellowstone National Park

Surviving one of Earth’s most extreme environments

Two of the fossils sampled for the study with the fossil melanosomes found in each fossil (scanning electron microscope images). Scaniacypselus to the left and Primotrogon to the right. Melanosome shape varies in the different samples, and is indicative of color. The sample furthest to the left was predicted to be iridescent. Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and Primotrogon by Jakob Vinther and Fiann Smithwick.

Scientists discover how birds and dinosaurs evolved to dazzle with colourful...

This is a drawing of the extinct Australian giant short-faced kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis, part of the Sthenurinae sub-family.

Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroos

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