The Great Escarpment in Karoo National Park, South Africa, looking across the Lower Karoo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago...

This slab of sandstone has been on display since 1896, showing off the scaly footprints of a prosauropod dinosaur. Scientists only recently realized that the deep grooves on the left may be the track of a sailing stone. Credit: Lull, R.S., 1915

Sailing stone track discovered ‘hiding in plain sight’ in dinosaur fossil

Volcano F. Credit: GEOMAR

Volcano F is the Origin of the Floating Stones

A new petit-spot volcano at the oldest section of the Pacific Plate Credit: Tohoku University

Researchers discover a new, young volcano in the Pacific

A modern-day sea lily in the Marianas region. Credit: (c) NOAA Ocean Research and Exploration

480 million year old fossils reveal sea lilies’ ancient roots

The deep structure of the continent Antarctica. Credit: Planetary Visions (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions)

The Antarctic: Data about the structure of the icy continent

Illustration of the newly described Kupoupou stilwelli by Jacob Blokland, Flinders University. Credit: Jacob Blokland, Flinders University

When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died

The ‘slow earthquakes’ that we cannot feel may help protect against...

Seismogram

Analyzing seismic patterns to forecast the magnitude of the largest earthquake...

New research is shedding light on how and where ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs lived. Credit: Julius Csotonyi

95-million-year-old fossil reveals new group of pterosaurs

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