Steep crater wall of Ngozi volcano in the Poroto Ridge Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Credit: Egbert Jolie/GFZ

Detecting hydrothermal vents in volcanic lakes

Picture taken at one of the sites inspected in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert. On this picture Professor Azua-Bustos and González-Silva are donning sterile suites and using sterile collecting materials in order to avoid the contamination of the sites studied. Credit: Margarita Azua

Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars

A picture of Mt. Aso, including locations of eastern and western clusters. Credit: Aso Geopark Promotion Council

Underground links between quakes and eruptions of Japan’s biggest active volcano

An exceptional fossil skull of Chilecebus carrascoensis, a 20-million-year-old primate from the Andes mountains of Chile. Credit: © AMNH/N. Wong and M. Ellison

20-million-year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes

A Desmoceras fossil. A cephalopod that thrived in the early Cretaceous, 146 to 100 million years ago. Note the fossilized biomineral nacre or mother of pearl. Credit: Pupa Gilbert

Making biominerals: Nature’s recipe is old, evolved more than once

Fig. 1. 10 million-year-old fossil frog from Libros, Spain and X-ray map showing elevated levels of copper and zinc in the internal organs. Fossil photograph copyright the Natural History Museum, London. X-ray fluorescence map. Credit: Valentina Rossi

Scientists discover new way to reconstruct what extinct animals looked like

Obsidian Rock

Obsidian : What is obsidian? Why obsidian is black?

Diamonds from the Juina area: most of these are superdeep diamonds. Credit: Graham Pearson

Superdeep diamonds confirm ancient reservoir deep under Earth’s surface

Head posture if the lateral (horizontal) semi-circular canal is parallel to the ground, in hatching (A), juvenile (B) and adult (C) Psittacosaurus lutjiatunensis. Images not to scale. Credit: Claire Bullar and IVPP.

Dinosaur brains from baby to adult

Microscopic eggs of fish tapeworm (left), giant kidney worm (centre), and Echinostoma worm (right) from the Must Farm excavation. Black scale bar represents 20 micrometres. Credit: Marissa Ledger

Ancient feces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk...

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