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

Structure layers of the earth.

How magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation

Paleohistological transverse sections of select elements of (A) large- and (B) medium-bodied individuals of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs, and (C) relative body-size of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs within known ornithomimosaur taxa through a geological time. Credit: Tsogtbaatar et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ostrich-like dinosaurs from Mississippi are among the world’s largest at over...

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Laying geological groundwork for life on Earth

Jeholornis. Image courtesy of Han Hu et al.

Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and...

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