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Primitivus manduriensis

Scientists discover new species of ancient marine lizard

A picture of Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica with the ice sliced to show the bedrock and the earth cut to show the crust (brown) the bottom of the lithosphere (red area) and the mantle (yellow).

The bedrock below West Antarctica is rising surprisingly fast

T. Rex

T. Rex couldn’t stick out its tongue

Ediacaran-era fossils: Obamus coronatus (left) and Attenborites janeae.

Two new creatures discovered from dawn of animal life

Chancelloriid Fossil

Strange sponge-like fossil creature from half a billion years ago

San Andreas Fault

‘Slow earthquakes’ on San Andreas Fault increase risk of large quakes

Lemurs, lorises and galagoes have nails on most digits and grooming claws on their second toes

Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails

Shartegosuchus

In the gaping mouth of ancient crocodiles

Earth

Better model of water under extreme conditions could aid understanding of...

This is a temple in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, India,

Learning about the Himalayas using Mars technology

San Andreas Fault

Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?

Mixteca-style mask decorated with turquoise mosaic from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution-National Museum

True origin of ancient turquoise

Left: This is a digitalized 3D natural rock, Center: Spheres cloud representing pore topological features, Right: Persistence diagram.

Novel method for investigating pore geometry in rocks

A wet-dry scenario in a prebiotic hot spring or tidal pool.

Simple chemical process that may have led to the origin of...

The best-preserved fossil of the group includes the skull, forelimbs, part of a backbone and a partial hind limb of a small, juvenile frog now known as Electrorana limoae.

Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

This silk-wrapped tick subsequently was entombed in amber that may have dripped from a nearby tree.

For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of tick’s worst...

Sediment core with gas hydrate

Masses of methane from mud volcanoes

Postdoctoral Fellow Theodore Them (left, holding an extinct fossil sample) and Assistant Professor Jeremy Owens (right, holding a rock core sample).

Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms

Brasilestes stardusti

Oldest mammal in Brazil lived in the age of dinosaurs

International collaboration studies the predictability of earthquakes

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