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The fossil was found on a National Trust beach on the Isle of Wight

First side-necked turtle ever discovered in UK

Mantle plumes, shown in red, have been identified around the world. (Ingo Wölbern, via Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists unearth 20 million years of ‘hot spot’ magmatism under Cocos...

Steve May, a research associate at the Jackson School of Geosciences, holds a fossil from a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile. Credit: Jackson School of Geosciences/ The University of Texas at Austin.

Newly discovered Jurassic fossils in Texas

Powerful volcanic eruptions produce ash plumes that can create their own weather systems, providing the conditions for lightning at higher altitudes than normally seen.

A Tongan volcano plume produced the most intense lightning rates ever...

Inner Earth. Credit: Gary Hincks/Science Photo Library

Earth’s solid metal sphere is ‘textured’

Dinosaur Photo: MICHAEL ROSSKOTHEN/MostPhotos

Dinosaurs were the first to take the perspectives of others

An artist’s impression of the pliosaur by Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth

Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a...

The strange ridges on the teeth indicate a specialised feeding strategy, however its diet remains a mystery. (Photo by Dr Nick Longrich)

Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre ‘screwdriver teeth’ found in Morocco

An MIT study of the freshwater greenfin darter fish suggests river erosion can be a driver of biodiversity in tectonically inactive regions. Credits: Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT with fish photo by Isaac Szabo

River erosion can shape fish evolution

Eruption of Tonga underwater volcano found to disrupt satellite signals halfway around the world. Credit: ERG science center

Eruption of Tonga underwater volcano found to disrupt satellite signals halfway...

Annotated seismic cross-section of the Fontanelas volcano. Source: Pereira and Gamboa, 2023

Extinct offshore volcano could store gigatons of carbon dioxide

Metamorphosed banded iron formation from southern Wyoming showing deformation and folding. The rock is approximately 2.7 billion years old. Dark bands are iron oxides (magnetite, hematite) and yellow-orange bands are chert with iron oxide inclusions (jasper). (Photo by Linda Welzenbach-Fries/Rice University)

Iron-rich rocks unlock new insights into Earth’s planetary history

A microscope image from an experiment conducted for this study. The image contains glass (brown), large garnets (pink) and other small mineral crystals. The field of view is 410 microns wide, about size of a sugar crystal. Credit: Science (2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.ade3418

Study presents new clues about the rise of Earth’s continents

Ammonite fossil From the Ohmden quarry, Posidonia shale lagerstatte. Credit: Sinjini Sinha

Golden fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation

Pyroclastic flow. Credit: Gordon Simmons; Dr Eric Breard image credit: Dr Charline Lormand

Deadly volcanic flow insights could aid forecasting

New lab work suggests that rock roughness affects earthquake aftershock dynamics along faults. Credit: Dextersinister/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Rougher faults may generate more earthquake aftershocks

Periechocrinus, a Silurian crinoid. BGS © UKRI.

The largest fossil crinoids ever

Argentinosaurus is still widely considered the heaviest dinosaur. Based on its mid-range estimate, it weighed the same as about nine T. rexes or 13 African elephants!

What was the largest dinosaurs?

Natural 236.40 Ct Huge Red Painite Rough Burmese Facet Raw Loose Gemstone Credit: supremgem/etsy

Painite: The Most Unique Gemstone in the World

Artist’s impression of two Troodons with a common nest. Illustration: Alex Boersma/PNAS

Analysis of dinosaur eggshells: Bird-like Troodon laid 4 to 6 eggs...

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