Continental plates around Greenland.

New model refutes leading theory on how Earth’s continents formed

A rocky landscape with tundra plants near the eastern coast of Greenland, similar to what the interior of the island may have looked like when its massive ice sheet melted away. (Photo: Joshua Brown)

Greenland fossil discovery reveals increased risk of sea-level catastrophe

An artist’s impression of the dinosaur. Image credit: John Sibbick

Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in...

Fona herzogae. Credit: Jorge Gonzales

Life underground suited newly discovered dinosaur fine

Lithouva - the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil accompanied with CT scan reconstruction. Bottom shows artist reconstruction. Photos by Fabiany Herrera, art by Pollyanna von Knorring.

Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may...

Reconstruction of Lokiceratops in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, as two Probrachylophosaurus move past in the background. Artwork by Fabrizio Lavezzi © Evolutionsmuseet, Knuthenborg

Newly discovered dinosaur boasts big, blade-like horns

Drone imagery of April 2024 eruption at Sundhnúkur, Iceland. Photo: Geoffrey Cook/Scripps Oceanography

Recent volcanic ‘fires’ in Iceland triggered by storage and melting in...

A sapphire from sediment in the Kyll, a river in the western Eifel. The crystal measures approximately 0.9 mm in diameter. | © Sebastian Schmidt

A blue miracle: How sapphires formed in volcanoes

A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Credit: E. Cottrell, Smithsonian.

New study supports stable mantle chemistry dating back to Earth’s early...

Photo-like satellite image of southern Greenland on the afternoon of September 4, 2022. Bare, dirty ice at the margin of the ice sheet appears gray. Snow-covered ice is bright white. Pale blue ribbons and circles are lakes, rivers and ponds of melt water. NASA image from Worldview

Scientists discover missing piece in climate models

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