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

Impressions of the Ediacaran fossils Dickinsonia (at center) with the smaller anchor shaped Parvancorina (left) in sandstone of the Ediacara Member from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia. Photo courtesy of Scott Evans.

Geobiologists shine new light on Earth’s first known mass extinction event...

SMU paleontologists helped find a new species of pterosaurs in Angola, where fossils of other large marine animals have been found. E. otyikokolo can be seen flying above the ocean in the ancient picture. Artwork by Karen Carr Studio.

New pterosaur species found in sub-Saharan Africa

Interactions of mantles at different depths. Credit: Prof. Dai Liqun's team.

Molybdenum isotopes reveal interaction between subducting slabs and mantles

Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera as it would have appeared in life on the Cambrian seafloor, circa 514 million years ago. The individual in the foreground has part of the skeleton removed to show the soft polyp inside the skeleton. Reconstruction by Xiaodong Wang.

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption as seen by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite on 15 January 2022. Top image: Eruption at 4:20 UTC (about 15 minutes into the eruption); Middle image: Eruption at 4:50 UTC (45 minutes into the eruption); Bottom image: Eruption at 5:40 UTC (1 hour 35 minutes into the eruption). Image credit: Simon Proud / STFC RAL Space / NCEO / JMA.

Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded

Scallop Pleuronectites from the Triassic period with fluorescent colour pattern; left under normal light, right under UV light. Photo: Klaus Wolkenstein

Glowing fossils: Fluorescence reveals color patterns of earliest scallops

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