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...

Outcrop of carbonate-altered mantle rock in the San Andreas Fault area. A recent study shows that carbon sequestration in mantle rocks may prevent large earthquakes in parts of the San Andreas Fault. (Photo by Frieder Klein, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks prevents large earthquakes in parts...

Earth is bombarded at random-GeologyPage

More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

Thalassotitan atrox grew up to 12 metres (40 feet) and was at the top of the food chain.

Fossils of giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans 66 million...

An anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium adheres to the molybdenite (MoS2) surface to uptake the trace elements from the mineral structure for cell synthesis. Credit: Science China Press

Mineral-microbe interactions play important roles in geological and environmental processes

Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right). (Image credit: Dr Stephan Lautenschlager, University of Birmingham).

Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites

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