The fossil of Microdocodon gracilis is preserved in two rock slabs, found in a site near the Wuhua village in the Daohugou area of Inner Mongolia, China. Credit: Zhe-Xi Luo

Jurassic fossil shows how early mammals could swallow like their modern...

Researchers searching for fossils kept finding tiny glassy spheres inside ancient clams. After more than a decade, testing suggests they are evidence of one or more undocumented meteorite impacts in Florida’s distant past. Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace

Cosmic pearls: Fossil clams in Florida contain evidence of ancient meteorite

Groundwater well drilling equipment in California's Central Valley. Photo Credit: Chad Ress

Drilling Deeper : A new study shows Americans are drilling deeper...

The output of the proposed methodology, which is a two-part optimization process that refines a common technique used to image salt bodies. The black area represents the salt region. Credit: Mahesh Kalita

Solving the salt problem for seismic imaging

Schematic diagram of water and chlorine transfer by the oceanic crust into the transitional zone of the mantle and the subsequent capture of the resulting material by an Archaean mantle plume. Credit: Evgeny Asafov

Scientists discover how and when a subterranean ocean emerged

The floormen (in yellow jackets) and drillers (in white booths in background) of Expedition 383 retrieve core barrels and sediment cores around the clock. Credit: Jenny Middleton/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

How a drilling ship pulls cores from 2.5 miles below the...

Relationship between volcanic eruptions and global monsoon hydroclimate. The bottom panel shows the distribution of global monsoon regions. Credit: Zuo Meng/Google images

Volcano eruption at different latitudes: A switch of hemispheric monsoon rainfall...

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Aquilarhinus palimentus, or ‘shovel-chinned eagle nose’. Illustration by ICRA Art

Strange new species of duck-billed dinosaur identified

An artist’s rendering of Auroraceratops shows its bipedal posture as well as the beak and frill that characterize it as a member of the horned dinosaurs. Paleontologists from Penn led a team in characterizing this species, discovered in China

Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two...

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