A depiction of an asteroid heading toward Earth, with the moon in the background. (Image credit: Juan Gartner via Getty Images)

The largest meteorite impacts on Earth

Calcium oxalate crystals - In living plants, calcium oxalate crystals can take on bizarre shapes (from left: hornbeam, button mangrove, Australian nettle) Credit: © Mahdieh Malekhosseini / University of Bonn

New field of research: Crystal traces in fossil leaves

Scleromochlus taylori. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

Triassic specimen found to be early relative of pterosaurs a century...

Asteroid impact earth

Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles...

The skull of Ichthyosaurs Hauffiopteryx typicus from the Strawberry Bank Lagerstätt, one of the specimens that were the subject of this study Credit: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Collections

Jurassic ichthyosaurs divided food resources to co-exist, researchers find

The diamond from Botswana revealed to the scientists that considerable amounts of water are stored in the rock at a depth of more than 600 kilometres. Photo: Tingting Gu, Gemological Institute of America, New York, NY, USA

An ocean inside Earth? Water hundreds of kilometers down

GOES-West satellite image of Tonga volcanic eruption, 2022. Credit: NASA Worldview, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR

Elusive atmospheric wave detected during 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption

Seismogram

Japan’s Next Great Earthquake

Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (in the foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. It includes two rhynchosaurs (at front right), an aetosaur (at left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (at back right). Illustration courtesy of Andrey Atuchin.

Discovery and naming of Africa’s oldest known dinosaur

Anak Krakatau in Lampung, Indonesia, in 2018

What killed dinosaurs and other life on Earth?

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