The Nazca plate moves eastwards with a rate of 6.6 cm per year.

Residual strain despite mega earthquake

The number of earthquakes striking south-central Kansas has skyrocketed

Geologists report new discoveries about Kansas, Oklahoma earthquakes

ancient giant penguin Kumimanu biceae

Ancient penguin was as big as a (human) Pittsburgh Penguin

skeleton of Rhaeticosaurus

The oldest plesiosaur was a strong swimmer

bubbly magma in laboratory

Chemical tipping point of magma determines explosive potential of volcanoes

Pseudooides

Fossil orphans reunited with their parents after half a billion years

A joint research team from the United States and China ventured to the Guliya Ice Cap in Tibet in 2015

Oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions

Hard tick grasping a dinosaur feather preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber.

Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking story

Small earthquakes (yellow stars) can be induced during hydraulic fracturing when high-pressure fluid (blue arrows) is pumped into horizontal wells to crack rock layers containing natural gas.

Small earthquakes at fracking sites may be early indicators of bigger...

The Rio San Juan transports sediment from the High Andes

New research improves understanding of ancient landscapes

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