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dinosaur skeleton

Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin found in Korea

Volcanic Eruption

Driving force of volcanic super-hazards uncovered

mammoth

Woolly mammoths and Neanderthals may have shared genetic traits

Everest

Nepal expedition to remeasure height of Everest

foraminifera

Evolution imposes ‘speed limit’ on recovery after mass extinctions

Rocks with banded iron formations and biosignatures - 1,900 million years old, Michigan, US (top left), 2,700 million years old, Ontario, Canada (bottom left) and 2,500 million years old, Karijini National Park, Western Australia (right).

Tracking records of the oldest life forms on Earth

Sollasina cthulhu

‘Cthulhu’ fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers

The bone is from a new species of hominin.

New species of early human found in the Philippines

Cricosaurus bambergensis

Jurassic crocodile discovery sheds light on reptiles’ family tree

Peregocetus

Ancient, four-legged whale with otter-like features found along the coast of...

hydraulic fracturing for shale gas

Damaging Sichuan earthquakes linked to fracking operations

The seismological station Patache is located at an altitude of 830 meters less then two kilometers away from the coast. Credit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ

Sun, moon and sea as part of a ‘seismic probe’

Transien modelling results: Atmospheric CO2 concentration (in pink) compared to ice core data (solid line) and other proxies. Willeit et al, 2019

More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented...

earthquake monitoring

Crowdsourcing speeds up earthquake monitoring

San Andreas Fault

California’s current earthquake hiatus is an unlikely pause

lambeosaurine (crested 'duck-billed' dinosaur)

First-confirmed occurrence of a lambeosaurine dinosaur found on Alaska’s North Slope

Mars

Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

Iron-oxidizing bacteria live in environments as extreme as the deep ocean and as common as roadside ditches. A recent paper in Frontiers proposes distributing the iron that these bacteria naturally produce to 'fertilize' phytoplankton and help remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Study Looks to Iron from Microbes for Climate Help

Hurricane Irma forming over the Atlantic Ocean in September 2017.

Large volcanic eruptions can alter hurricane strength and frequency

Crocodylomorphs were a highly morphologically and ecologically diverse clade. These extinct crocodile relatives had a much richer variety of skull shapes than living crocodilians, suggesting a wide range of feeding strategies. Credit: Darren Naish, Tetrapod Zoology

Untangling the evolution of feeding strategies in ancient crocodiles

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