Dinosaurs

‘Superlungs’ gave dinosaurs the energy to run and fight

The remains of skeletons that were found in the Pompeii archaeological site, Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. The Italian news agency ANSA says new excavations in the ancient buried city of Pompeii have yielded the undisturbed skeletons of people who had taken refuge from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D.79. The director of the Pompeii archaeological site, Massimo Osanna, told ANSA on Wednesday the skeletons, believed to be two women and three children, were still intact, having been left undisturbed despite looting at the site centuries ago.

Dig at Italy’s Pompeii volcanic site yields 5 skeletons

Rice University scientists studied how the density of microseismicity, or small tremors, related to the seismic structure of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. Red lines in the graphic at left correspond to cross-sections from northern Washington (top), central Oregon (middle), and northern California (bottom).

Relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin

Mexico’s 2017 Tehuantepec quake suggests a new worry

A mile-long sediment core drilled by the International Ocean Discovery Program helped researchers uncover how the Chicxulub crater formed.

Crater from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs reveals how broken rocks...

Dickinsonia costata

Special journal issue looks for new clues about old life

Life cycle of sulphur predicts location of valuable minerals

Taupo Volcano

How Magma Climbs the Crustal Ladder Between Eruptions

Palaeontologist Jonah Choiniere says a student noticed a 'few (fossilised) bones coming out' of a massive rock on a remote farm in central South Africa.

‘Dinosaur country’: fossil hunters’ S. African paradise

Seismogram

Quiescent British Columbia fault capable of producing large earthquakes

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