Artist’s impression of Navaornis. Credit: Júlia D’Oliveira

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian...

Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China’s Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism, as previously thought. (Jun Liu, Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Did the world’s best-preserved dinosaurs really die in ‘Pompeii-type’ events?

An individual submarine chimney at a depth of roughly 30 m. Photo: UFZ

White smokers on the lake floor

Reddish-brown bands of Tava sandstone cut through other rocks. (Credit: Liam Courtney-Davies)

Was ‘Snowball Earth’ a global event? Study delivers best proof yet

The research findings hint at vast rivers of glacial water rushing like a reverse tsunami from the land into the sea, then pooling on top of extra salty, extra dense ocean water. Photo courtesy of AdobeStock.

When Earth was slushy

The origins of the massive January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption may have been detected in a seismic wave recorded 750 kilometers from the volcano, according to new research in Geophysical Research Letters. Credit: NASA

New trigger proposed for record-smashing 2022 Tonga eruption

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum. Credit: Captmondo

What’s Inside Meteorites?

The August 2023 El Nino, as mapped from space. The huge mass of warm water against the coast of Ecuador and Peru exerts global influence on weather patterns. (Image: NOAA)

Weather-changing El Nino oscillation is at least 250 million years old

Mount Everest officially stands at 8,848 metres (29,029 feet) above sea level

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests...

Reconstruction of an avisaurid (e.g., A. darwini). Morphology of the tarsometatarsus suggests that these large birds engaged in raptorial behavior and could carry proportionally large prey. Illustration done by Ville Sinkkonen. Credit Clark et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Newly discovered Late Cretaceous birds may have carried heavy prey like...

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