An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Tyler Stone BA '19, art and cinema; see his website tylerstoneart.wordpress.com

Ancient marine predator had a built-in float

Buriolestes schultzi brain. Credit: Márcio L. Castro

Researchers reconstruct the first complete brain of one of the oldest...

CT scan of coprolite specimen, BRSMG Cf15546, in different views, showing tuberculated bone (blue) from a fish skull, and two vertebrae from the tail of the marine reptile Pachystropheus, in yellow and green. Credit: Marie Cueille, and Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol

Fossil poop shows fishy lunches from 200 million years ago

A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R. Kligman. Credit: Virginia Tech

New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered

Kopidosaurus perplexus skull in left lateral view. Credit: Simon Scarpetta

Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ extinct species

The outcrop of the pseudotachylyte-bearing fault zone in pelagic sedimentary rocks.

New fault zone measurements could help us to understand subduction earthquakes

Representative Image : Lava "Volcanic Eruption"

Magma ‘conveyor belt’ fuelled world’s longest erupting supervolcanoes

This illustration shows a reconstruction of Ambopteryx in a glide. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

These two bird-sized dinosaurs evolved the ability to glide, but weren’t...

Structure layers of the earth.

A new way of looking at the Earth’s interior

Three-dimensional visualisation of partial melting at the base of tectonic plates. The orange iso-surfaces show the regions where, at a depth of between 100 and 300 km, the quantity of molten rock is greater than 0.2%. The white sphere in the centre of the globe represents the Earth’s core. Credit © Stéphanie Durand, Laboratoire de géologie de Lyon: Terre, planètes et environnement (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1).

Deep magma facilitates the movement of tectonic plates

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