Lava fountains at Kilauea in Hawaii created a spatter cone, which was estimated to be 180 feet tall in this June 2018 photo. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

The ‘universal break-up criterion’ of hot, flowing lava?

The scans revealed many microscopic food remains including foraminifera (small amoeboid protists with external shells), small shells of marine invertebrates and possible remains of polychaete worms. Credit: Qvarnström mfl.

Filter-feeding pterosaurs were the flamingos of the Late Jurassic

Ancient Tsunamis: Deducing the scale of tsunamis from the ’roundness’ of...

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?

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