GOES-West satellite image of Tonga volcanic eruption, 2022. Credit: NASA Worldview, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR

Elusive atmospheric wave detected during 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption

Seismogram

Japan’s Next Great Earthquake

Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (in the foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. It includes two rhynchosaurs (at front right), an aetosaur (at left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (at back right). Illustration courtesy of Andrey Atuchin.

Discovery and naming of Africa’s oldest known dinosaur

Anak Krakatau in Lampung, Indonesia, in 2018

What killed dinosaurs and other life on Earth?

A selection of some of the rare earth artificial rocks produced by the team. Picture taken at the iCRAG Lab at Trinity College Dublin. Credit: Trinity College Dublin

Researchers create synthetic rocks to better understand how increasingly sought-after rare...

The Gogo fish fossil where the 380-million-year-old, 3D preserved heart was discovered by researchers. Pictured at the WA Museum. Credit: Yasmine Phillips, Curtin University

380-million-year-old heart discovered

Fossil of Opisthiamimus gregori Fossil skeleton of the new lizard-like reptile Opisthiamimus gregori. The fossil was discovered in the Morrison Formation of the Bighorn Basin, north-central Wyoming, and dates to the Late Jurassic Period, approximately 150 million years ago. Credit: David DeMar for the Smithsonian Institution.

Discovery of extinct prehistoric reptile that lived among dinosaurs

The iron-carbon alloy reacted with water at high pressure and high temperature conditions related to the Earth’s deep mantle in a diamond-anvil cell.

Diamonds and rust at Earth’s core-mantle boundary

The upper jaw of the infant of Yuanmoupithecus. Image courtesy of Terry Harrison, NYU's Department of Anthropology.

Early gibbon fossil found in southwest China: Discovery fills evolutionary history...

The eruption created an initial wave 90 metres high – almost the height of the Statue of Liberty

Wave created by Tonga volcano eruption reached 90 meters — nine...

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