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Explosive lava spews from the latest eruption of the Fogo volcano located on the Cape Verde islands in November 2014. Science now knows that carbon dioxide – instead of water – triggered it. Credit: Ricardo Ramalho/Cardiff University

Carbon dioxide – not water – triggers explosive volcanoes

Close up image on one wall showing numerous depressions of hadrosaur footprints. The ice ax in the lower left of the frame is approximately 3 feet long, for scale. Photo by Patrick Druckenmiller

Scientists explore dinosaur ‘Coliseum’ in Denali National Park

Fossilized poop, called coprolites, collected in Nong Yakong village, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand. Coprolites are an important source for studying ancient parasites. Nonsrirach et al. under CC-BY 4.0

Fossil Poop “feces” infested with parasites from over 200 million years...

Reconstruction of Hupehsuchus about to engulf a shoal of shrimps. Artwork by Shunyi Shu, Photo Copyright © Long Cheng, Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey.

Whale-like filter-feeding discovered in prehistoric marine reptile

The fossilized cervical vertebra and overlaying osteoderms of the new archosaur species Mambachiton fiandohana. © Nesbitt et al.

New archosaur species shows that precursor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs was...

Impact craters and their broader structures can be visible in a geologic map, like a bullseye. But what geophysical traces remain at the structure’s outermost edges? Credit: Huber et al. (2023), JGR Planets

Earth’s most ancient impact craters are disappearing

Undersea images of lava from Kama'ehu volcano, contrasting fresh-looking young lavas (top) versus older sediment-covered lavas (bottom). The two images on the bottom are courtesy of JAMSTEC.

Hawai’i’s undersea volcano, Kama’ehu, erupted five times in past 150 years

Artistic reconstruction of Burgessomedusa by Christian McCall. © Christian McCall

Burgessomedusa phasmiformis.: Oldest known species of swimming jellyfish identified

Mesozoic mural depicting different ocean species that have evolved through time. [Credit: Smithsonian Institution]

Scientists discover 36-million-year geological cycle that drives biodiversity

In this overview map of Utah earthquakes, the dotted line marks the approximate location of the transition zone between the Basin and Range province and the Colorado Plateau and the blue rectangle indicates the study area. Historic seismic events in the study area (1900–1981, 4.5 ≤ M ≤ 6.6) from UUSS and USGS catalogs, and location of basins and ranges mentioned in the text. Horizontal purple dashed lines indicate approximate locations of Blue Ribbon (BRT) and Cove Fort (CVT) Transverse Zones (P. D. Rowley, 1998), thin black lines indicate Quaternary faults. MP: Markagunt Plateau Volcanic Field. The larger map (c) shows seismicity in the study area since 1981, ML ≥ 2.5 (UUSS). PHOTO CREDIT: University of Utah

What can central Utah’s earthquake ‘swarms’ reveal about the West’s seismicity?

Crawford Lake Credit: Sarah Roberts

Crawford Lake, Canada, chosen as the primary marker to identify the...

The fossil showing the entangled skeletons of the dinosaur (Psittacosaurus) and the mammal (Repenomamus). Scale bar equals 10 cm.

Unusual fossil shows rare evidence of a mammal attacking a dinosaur

Artwork by James Robins.

Flying reptiles had nurturing parental style

A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur. Credit: René Lauer

New fossil flying reptile ‘Elvis’ takes flight.

Left: Feathers from a baby bird that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in amber. Photo by Shundong Bi. Right: Illustration of what a newly hatched Enantiornithine bird may have looked like.

Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers

Two Vectipelta barretti - copyright Stuart Pond

Ankylosaur: New armoured dinosaur discovered

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...

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