Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature

CHW 189 from the private collection of Herman Winkelhorst (Netherlands). The neck of the animal is excellently preserved, but the rest is not. One possible explanation may be that this is the result of uneven colonization of the carcass by microorganisms and algae, which created a protective layer especially around the neck

Fossil deposit is much richer than expected

Sampling Hot Molten Lava

Bismuth Crystal “Artificially grown bismuth crystal”

Findings about the effect of a volcano's age on its likelihood to erupt will be applied to the Merapi volcano in Indonesia, among others.

How to predict when a volcano will erupt

Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere

Part of a quilted Ediacaran fossil is partly covered by ancient wind-drift from Namibia. Image courtesy of Greg Retallack.

Thin layers of sediment point to early arrival of life on...

Life reconstruction of ichthyosaur skull. Credit: Bob Nicholls (Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum)

Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric...

Map of the locations and depths of the deep low-frequency (DLF) earthquakes beneath the Laacher See Volcano ("Lake Laach Volcano") in Germany. Brittle earthquakes are marked as circles, DLF events as stars. Credit: Hensch et al.

Deep low-frequency earthquakes indicate migration of magmatic fluids beneath Laacher See...

Doctoral students Daniel Miller, in the water, with Helen Habicht and Benjamin Keisling, handle two recaptured sediment traps from an unusually deep lake in central Maine, where they collected 136 sediment samples spanning the 900-year time span to reconstruct the longest and highest-resolution climate record for the Northeastern United States to date.

Geoscientists reconstruct ‘eye-opening’ 900-year Northeastern U.S. climate record

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