The two accumulation phases of the Mediterranean salt layer during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In the first phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean Basin filled with brine; in the second phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean completely isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, as a result of the significant drop in sea level in the western and eastern Mediterranean sub-basins. © Giovanni Aloisi

How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years...

White microbial-like colonies on the lava tube substrate.

New research explores volcanic caves, advancing the search for life on...

A polarized microscope photo of basaltic rock. Credit: Esteban Gazel Lab/Provided

Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water

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

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