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Artist’s impression of Navaornis. Credit: Júlia D’Oliveira

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

November 18, 2024

Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China’s Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism, as previously thought. (Jun Liu, Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Did the world’s best-preserved dinosaurs really die in ‘Pompeii-type’ events?

Reddish-brown bands of Tava sandstone cut through other rocks. (Credit: Liam Courtney-Davies)

Was ‘Snowball Earth’ a global event? Study delivers best proof yet

The research findings hint at vast rivers of glacial water rushing like a reverse tsunami from the land into the sea, then pooling on top of extra salty, extra dense ocean water. Photo courtesy of AdobeStock.

When Earth was slushy

The origins of the massive January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption may have been detected in a seismic wave recorded 750 kilometers from the volcano, according to new research in Geophysical Research Letters. Credit: NASA

New trigger proposed for record-smashing 2022 Tonga eruption

White Desert, Farafra, Egypt

June 30, 2014

Plate Tectonics & Plate Boundaries Map

June 30, 2014

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