We know that birds, such as this Archaeopteryx, evolved from dinosaurs but there have been persistent questions about how common the feathers were amongst their extinct relatives © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

The first dinosaurs probably didn’t have feathers

One of the biggest gaps in the arthropod fossil record was what the ancestors to millipedes and centipedes looked like, but now that gap has been filled. Credit: Katja Schulz/Wikimedia Commons

Aquatic ancestors of terrestrial millipedes characterized for the first time

Image: Rowan Webb

UNE creates world’s first online human skeleton

Although turtles belong to the reptiles, their skulls differs markedly from those of other members of this group. Credit: I. Werneburg

Shell puzzle: An additional piece added to the evolution of turtles

Holotype of calamitalean sphenopsid Annularia paisii sp. nov. showing an insect-induced gall

Annularia paisii : New species of ancient horsetail with gall with...

Flake of clear yellow amber from Anglesea, Victoria containing a new, beautifully preserved biting midge ca. 41 million years old. Credit: Enrique Peñalver.

Fossil trove sheds light on ancient antipodean ecology

Minoan eruption of Thera. Satellite image of Thera, November 21, 2000. Credit: NASA, public domain

Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date

A seismogram of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami recorded at Weston Observatory in Massachusetts, USA. Credit: Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Sediments may control location, magnitude of megaquakes

The team's experiments compared carbon's compatibility with the silicates that comprise the Earth's mantle (outer circle) to its compatibility with the iron that comprises the planet's core (inner circle) while under conditions mimicking the Earth's interior during its formative period. They found that more carbon would have stayed in the mantle than previously thought. Credit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani Lee, and the late Erik Hauri.

Most of Earth’s carbon was hidden in the core during its...

sedimentary bedding

Quantitative reconstruction of formation paleo-pressure and case studies

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