Workers excavating Hall’s Cave in Central Texas. Image Courtesy of Michael Waters

Cooling of Earth caused by eruptions, not meteors

lizard

Biologist sequence genome of rare reptilian ‘living fossil’

Malignant cancer diagnosed in a dinosaur for the first time

Malignant cancer diagnosed in a dinosaur for the first time

Mountains

Ancient mountains recorded in Antarctic sandstones reveal potential links to global...

Mars

Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, researchers...

Fjords Bare hotspots

Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspot

An African Elephant walks through the drying streambed of Chitake Springs as the drought season descends on Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe Photo credit: Trisha Atwood.

Herbivores, Not Predators, Most At Risk of Extinction

The clutch of fossilized Protoceratops eggs and embryos examined in this study was discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia at Ukhaa Tolgod. Credit: M. Ellison /© AMNH

First Dinosaur Eggs Were Soft Like a Turtle’s

Fracking

What factors influence the likelihood of fracking-related seismicity in Oklahoma?

Amud 9 fossils. Credit: Osborjn M. Pearson and Adrián Pablos

Amud 9 is shown to be a Neandertal woman weighing 60...

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