Bermuda has a unique volcanic past. About 30 million years ago, a disturbance in the mantle’s transition zone supplied the magma to form the now-dormant volcanic foundation on which the island sits.

From Earth’s deep mantle, scientists find a new way volcanoes form

Bedbug

Bedbugs evolved more than 100 million years ago “walked the earth...

Subsidence in Tuscany

Monitoring Earth’s shifting land

Credit: Density values from LithoRef18 (Afonso et al.) and gravity gradients from Bouman et al. (2016)

3D Earth in the making

Close-up view of the Ichniotherium trackway from Grand Canyon National Park.

Newly discovered fossil footprints force paleontologists to rethink ancient desert inhabitants

The cast of “Little Guy” mounted on display in the East Tennessee State University Museum of Natural History at the Gray Fossil Site

Texas A&M student identifies unique 5-million-year-old rhino species

Crystallized coyote skull

Crystallized Skull : All Fakes?

Tafí del Valle (Tucumán, Argentina)on the ash deposits originated in the Cerro Blanco eruption

The Central Andes had the largest volcanic eruption of the last...

primitive monkey teeth in Kenya

Tooth fossils fill 6-million-year-old gap in primate evolution

The Laki volcano in Iceland.

Iceland volcano eruption in 1783-84 did not spawn extreme heat wave

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