Microbes in a sub-seafloor aquifer feast on carbon in fluids flowing through the permeable rock.

Deep water aquifer acts like natural bio-reactor, allowing microbes to consume...

Localization and geometry of the "Unit 2" corresponding to the sediment body originated by the Zanclean mega flood.

Scientists find new evidences of the megaflood that ended the Messinian...

Model of a plant with one or several boreholes.

Optimized positioning of geothermal boreholes reduces seismicity

Meteorite sample

Meteorite diamonds tell of a lost planet

Peritresius martini turtle

New ancestor of modern sea turtles found in Alabama

Toipahautea whale

New species of ancient whale identified and named by Otago palaeontologists

Mammoth

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans

A scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over.

Dinosaurs ended – and originated – with a bang!

Platylithophycus cretaceus specimen. The scale bar is 5 centimeters.

First an alga, then a squid, enigmatic fossil is actually a...

Graphic by University of Oregon scientists provides new structural information, based on supercomputer modeling, about the location of a mid-crustal sill that separates magma under Yellowstone.

Scientists decipher the magma bodies under Yellowstone

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