Satellite image of the Great Escarpment in southern Africa from the Sentinel Hub Earth Observation Browser. Taken using the Sentinel-2 L1C dataset, in May 2020. Credit: Prof Tom Gernon, University of Southampton.

Scientists uncover hidden forces causing continents to rise

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

Millions of years for plants to recover from global warming

A reconstructed image of Pakudyptes at a New Zealand coast. PHOTO: Tatsuya Shinmura & Ashoro Museum of Paleontology

Fossil shows how penguins’ wings evolved

Skeleton of the largest-known T. rex (foreground) and silhouette of the largest possible giant T. rex. Credit: Mark Witton.

Scientists assess how large dinosaurs could really get

The Syndyoceras existed for 4.2 million years during the Cenozoic era on the North American continent. This skeletal display can be found in the University of Nebraska State Museum–Morill Hall.

Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

Komodo dragon. Credit: Charlotte Ellis, Zoological Society of London

Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth to rip apart their prey

Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis on the Panthalassan Ocean coast artwork by Jorge Gonzalez

A new species of extinct crocodile relative rewrites life on the...

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...

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