Rocks with banded iron formations and biosignatures - 1,900 million years old, Michigan, US (top left), 2,700 million years old, Ontario, Canada (bottom left) and 2,500 million years old, Karijini National Park, Western Australia (right).

Tracking records of the oldest life forms on Earth

Sollasina cthulhu

‘Cthulhu’ fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers

The bone is from a new species of hominin.

New species of early human found in the Philippines

Cricosaurus bambergensis

Jurassic crocodile discovery sheds light on reptiles’ family tree

Peregocetus

Ancient, four-legged whale with otter-like features found along the coast of...

hydraulic fracturing for shale gas

Damaging Sichuan earthquakes linked to fracking operations

The seismological station Patache is located at an altitude of 830 meters less then two kilometers away from the coast. Credit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ

Sun, moon and sea as part of a ‘seismic probe’

Transien modelling results: Atmospheric CO2 concentration (in pink) compared to ice core data (solid line) and other proxies. Willeit et al, 2019

More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented...

earthquake monitoring

Crowdsourcing speeds up earthquake monitoring

San Andreas Fault

California’s current earthquake hiatus is an unlikely pause

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