Photosynthesis originated a billion years earlier than we thought, study shows

"Enantiornithes" Tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird

127 million year old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian...

Calatayud-Daroca Basin in Central Spain.

Fossilised plant leaf wax provides new tool for understanding ancient climates

This is a roundnose grenadier at 1,300m off the Hebrides, Scotland.

Deep-sea fish choose habitat according to genotype, new research says

The world's largest uncut diamond

How Do Minerals & Rocks Get Their Names?

Fossilized bubbles and cyanobacterial fabric from 1.6 billion-year-old phosphatized microbial mats from Vindhyan Supergroup, central India.

Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

Sediment layers

New Method Unearths Climate Data from Ancient Soils

This is professor Rais Latypov in front of an example of the stratified chromite layers.

New study reveals the secret of magmas that produce South Africa’s...

Transmitted-light, cross-polarized-light, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of starch-bearing Lagenicula-type megaspore from the Baode section, north China. AL Details of the starch grain in D (rectangle) in transmitted light. Note the hilum (small depression) in center, and Y-shaped fissures.

Permian carbo-loading: How starchy treats helped build an ancient world

An example of coastal boulder deposits on Inishmaan, Aran Islands. The cliffs are about 20 m high, and the boulders are piled 32-42 m inland from the cliff edge.

Storm waves can move boulders we thought only tsunamis had the...

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