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...

Broad surfaces called terraces preserve ancient river floodplains and landscape history up to hundreds of meters above the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, in eastern Alaska. Researchers from the USGS, the University of Vermont, Purdue University and Utah State University publish definitive support that increases in sediment deposited to oceans from river erosion coincide with dramatic changes in glacial cycles. Credit: USGS

Geoscientist Aids Study of Climatic Change Impacts on River Erosion

Elrathia kingii, one of the most common and well-recognized trilobites, which was collected in western Utah. Credit: M. Hopkins/© AMNH

Growing up trilobite

Graduate student Mike Duvall is pictured here in southeastern Nepal during fieldwork in 2017. Image credit: John Waldron

Scientists discover fault system in southeastern Nepal

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