Impact illustration. Credit: Victor Leshyk

It was microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater, research suggests

Fault zone with broken rock inside stippled lines and faulting directions of each rock segment outlined by half arrows. Photo credit: Henrik Drake. Illustration: Mikael Tillberg.

A new method for dating ancient earthquakes

The fossil (left) was unearthed in Wisconsin in 1985. Scientists analyzed it and discovered the ancient animal's respiratory and circulatory organs (center) were near-identical to those of a modern-day scorpion (right).

Fossil is the oldest-known scorpion

Satellite image of the Gibraltar Arc. Credit: NASA

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An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

A fossilized cloudinomorph from the Montgomery Mountains near Pahrump, Nevada. This is representative of the fossil that was analyzed in the study.

Scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract – 550 million years

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100 million-year-old amber piece with lizard leg and mycomycete (arrow).

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