Ediacaran carbonate rocks in Three Gorges area, Hubei Province

What caused the mass extinction of Earth’s first animals?

Quartz analysis

Yosemite granite ‘tells a different story’ story about Earth’s geologic history

Hélène Le Mével

‘Ring around bathtub’ at giant volcano field shows movement of subterranean...

Jessica Irving sits with two meteorites Princeton seismologist Jessica Irving

Seismologists use massive earthquakes to unlock secrets of the outer core

Original picture (left) and virtual rendering of the Jacovec cranium (middle) with two sections revealing the inner structure (right).

Cranium of a four-million-year-old hominin shows similarities to that of modern...

Lestodon

Dramatic change in way ancient diets are calculated

Amazing Landscapes and Rock Formations

+20 Most Amazing Landscapes and Rock Formations

Primitivus manduriensis

Scientists discover new species of ancient marine lizard

A picture of Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica with the ice sliced to show the bedrock and the earth cut to show the crust (brown) the bottom of the lithosphere (red area) and the mantle (yellow).

The bedrock below West Antarctica is rising surprisingly fast

T. Rex

T. Rex couldn’t stick out its tongue

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