Long neck, long tail, tiny head, tiny teeth. These iconic, gargantuan dinosaurs developed a wholly unique dining strategy to support their massive size. Image by Stephanie Abramowicz, courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM).
Dinosaur

Tooth Fast, Tooth Curious?

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Brighstoneus simmondsi reconstruction. Credit: John Sibbick
Dinosaur

New species of iguanodontian dinosaur discovered from Isle of Wight

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Pleurosaurus from the Late Jurassic, some 150 million years ago, of southern Germany, a remarkable, long-bodied swimming rhynchocephalian.
Fossils

Rapidly evolving species more likely to go extinct, study suggests

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Laser-stimulated fluorescence imaging of a pterosaur fossil reveals flight-related soft tissues. The imaging revealed a muscular wing root fairing that smooths airflow around the wing-body junction and reduces drag, as in the wing root fairings of modern aeroplanes. (Image credit: Michael Pittman)
Dinosaur

Muscular wing-body junction improved Pterosaur flight performance

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The model offers new insights into how the plate subducted under Japan breaks into segments by bending and thereby crushing olivine grains on its underside. (Graphic: Taras Gerya / ETH Zurich)
plate tectonics

Crushed resistance: Tectonic plate sinking into a subduction zone

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Despite ESA’s GOCE mission ending over seven years ago, scientists continue to use this remarkable satellite’s gravity data to delve deep and unearth secrets about our planet. Recent research shows how scientists have combined GOCE data with measurements taken at the surface to generate a new model of Earth’s crust and upper mantle. This is the first time such a model has been created this way – and it is shedding new light on the processes of plate tectonics. The new model produced in ESA’s 3D Earth study shows for the first time how dissimilar the sub-lithospheric mantle is beneath different oceans, and provides insight as to how the morphology and spreading rates of mid-oceanic ridges may be connected with the deep chemical and thermal structure. Credit: ESA/Planetary Visions)
Earth

Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme...

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Boudins of amphibolite layers (metamorphosed basalts) that were stretched within quartz schists (Norway). Photo credits © Haakon Fossen.
plate tectonics

Fate of sinking tectonic plates is revealed

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The rising Earth from the perspective of the moon.
Earth

Radiocarbon is key to understanding Earth’s past

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A view of the crater of Dotsero volcano, a monogenetic volcano that erupted in Colorado about 4,000 years ago. Credit: Greg Valentine
Volcanoes

Let’s talk about the 1,800-plus ‘young’ volcanoes in the US Southwest

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Brachiopod fossils from the Ordovician Period outcrop on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. (Credit: André Desrochers, University of Ottawa)
Paleontology

Uncovering the secrets behind Earth’s first major mass extinction

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