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Earth's mantle (dark red) lies below the crust (brown layer near the surface) and above the outer core (bright red).

Earth’s fingerprint hints at finding habitable planets beyond the solar system

Volcano: UH geologists have discovered 10 million years of silence in a chain of volcanoes between Northeast Asia and Russia.

Crack in Pacific seafloor caused volcanic chain to go dormant

Kīlauea lava entry on the southeast coastline of Hawai'i Island as seen from UH research vessel Kaimikai o Kanaloa. Credit: Ryan Tabata, UH.

Kīlauea lava fuels phytoplankton bloom off Hawai’i Island

The Wedderburn meteorite. (Museums Victoria/CC BY 4.0)

Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral Never Before Seen in...

A graphic thermal image of a T. rex with its dorsotemporal fenestra glowing on the skull. Illustration courtesy of Brian Engh.

T. rex had an air conditioner in its head

Global paleomagnetic plate reconstructions a. 270 Ma, b. 180 Ma, and inset the Present Tethyan Realm. Credit: ©Science China Press

What drives plate tectonics?

Hydraulic fracturing (Creative Commons photo)

Understanding the link between fracking and earthquakes

A fossilized trail of the animal Yilingia spiciformis, dating back 550 million years. The trail was found in China by a team of scientists including Shuhai Xiao of the Virginia Tech College of Science. Credit: Virginia Tech College of Science

Ancient animal species: Fossils dating back 550 million years among first...

The type specimen of Aenigmaspina pantyfynnonensis, photograph and 3D scan model, produced by Erin Patrick as part of her Masters thesis work in Bristol. This little block, the size of the palm of your hand, shows the backbone, curved round from top right to bottom left, and in the middle the ribs and shoulder blades. Scale bar is 1 cm. Credit: University of Bristol

A new reptile species from Wales named by Bristol student

Map of seismic sensors (green triangles) around the epicenter (red star) of one of the earthquakes near the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. Credit: 2019 Satoshi Ide

Earthquake study casts doubt on early warnings but hints at improved...

A, photograph of Armoricaphyton chateaupannense preserved in 2D as carbonaceous thin films. B, SEM image of a transverse section of an axis of a specimen of A. chateaupannense preserved in 3D showing the radially aligned tracheids. Credit: Canadian Light Source

Analyzing the world’s oldest woody plant fossil

In-depth fossil analysis could help us understand the true functions of colour. Credit: Aline Dassel/Pixabay, licensed under Pixabay licence

Fossil colour studies are changing our idea of how dinosaurs looked

This photograph shows rocks from the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, Canada, from which doctoral candidate Malcolm Hodgskiss collected barite samples dating 2.02 to 1.87 billion years old. Credit: Malcolm Hodgskiss

Ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinction

Lava fountains at Kilauea in Hawaii created a spatter cone, which was estimated to be 180 feet tall in this June 2018 photo. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

The ‘universal break-up criterion’ of hot, flowing lava?

The scans revealed many microscopic food remains including foraminifera (small amoeboid protists with external shells), small shells of marine invertebrates and possible remains of polychaete worms. Credit: Qvarnström mfl.

Filter-feeding pterosaurs were the flamingos of the Late Jurassic

Ancient Tsunamis: Deducing the scale of tsunamis from the ’roundness’ of...

Steep crater wall of Ngozi volcano in the Poroto Ridge Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Credit: Egbert Jolie/GFZ

Detecting hydrothermal vents in volcanic lakes

Picture taken at one of the sites inspected in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert. On this picture Professor Azua-Bustos and González-Silva are donning sterile suites and using sterile collecting materials in order to avoid the contamination of the sites studied. Credit: Margarita Azua

Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars

A picture of Mt. Aso, including locations of eastern and western clusters. Credit: Aso Geopark Promotion Council

Underground links between quakes and eruptions of Japan’s biggest active volcano

An exceptional fossil skull of Chilecebus carrascoensis, a 20-million-year-old primate from the Andes mountains of Chile. Credit: © AMNH/N. Wong and M. Ellison

20-million-year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes

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