Dinosaur ancestors are shown in this artist's conception of life in the Chañares formation approximately 235 million years. Credit: Victor O. Leshyk / www.paleovista.com

Climate change played key role in dinosaur success story

Pterodactylus antiquus, DMA-JP-2014/004, from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Torleite Formation of Painten; overview photograph.

Oldest Pterodactylus fossil found in Germany

Fossils from the Fezouata Shale. From left to right, a non-mineralized arthropod (Marrellomorpha), a palaeoscolecid worm and a trilobites. Credit Emmanuel Martin. 

Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years...

A seismogram of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami recorded at Weston Observatory in Massachusetts, USA. Credit: Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Finding faults deeply stressful

Artist's impression of an individual 525-million-year-old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal sea floor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite, rock-like structures built by microorganisms that were common at the time. Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld

525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution

Artistic reconstruction of the Ordovician fossils Mieridduryn bonniae. Original artwork by Franz Anthony

Welsh ‘weird wonder’ fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution

Thanks to its geothermally active location, the town of Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture (in the background of this image), is one of Japan’s most popular onsen (hot springs) destinations. The acidic and vibrant turquoise Yugama crater lake, however, is definitely not suitable for swimming. Credit: Tomoya Obase

Monitoring ‘frothy’ magma gases could help evade disaster

Field area and glacier retreat due to calving. (A) Location of Börgen Bay at the West Antarctic Peninsula. Bathymetry from ETOPO 1 global relief model (74). (B) Bathymetry of Börgen Bay from multibeam echosounder data and coastline/topography from Landsat imagery (see Materials and Methods). Dots mark locations of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiles used here, with profiles taken before (red) and after (blue) the calving event. (C) Landsat images of the William Glacier front from (top) 17 January 2020 and (bottom) 24 January 2020. In both panels, the orange line marks the glacier front on 17 January 2020 to highlight the retreat of the glacier between those dates. Credit: Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add0720

Underwater tsunamis created by glacier calving cause vigorous ocean mixing

Giant sea scorpions once roamed the ancient Devonian sea 400 million years ago. Now, researchers are learning more about that world. Credit: Aunt Spray | Shutterstock.com

Tiniest ever ancient seawater pockets revealed

A dazzling play of colors highlights Southern California’s long lost clam. Photo Credit: Jeff Goddard

Rare ‘fossil’ clam discovered alive

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