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

Distribution of intraplate earthquakes in central and eastern North America

Ancient weakening of Earth’s crust explains unusual intraplate earthquakes

This map of Pangea shows the distribution of life during the late Permian period

How much can 252-million-year-old ecosystems tell us about modern Earth? A...

Sample of amber

Nuclear technology unlocks 50-million-year-old time capsules

Dramatic cliffs on the shores of Lake Superior.

What geologists got wrong about the world’s biggest failed rift

Reconstruction of Wakaleo schouteni

New species of extinct marsupial lion discovered in Australia

Transparent skulls of an extinct plesiosaur (top) and a living crocodile (bottom).

It’s all in the ears: Inner ears of extinct sea monsters...

Map of sites and postulated migratory pathways associated with modern humans dispersing across Asia during the Late Pleistocene.

Revising the story of the dispersal of modern humans across Eurasia

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