New loriciferan from Japan: Wataloricus japonicus Credit: Shinta Fujimoto

A New Species of Rare Phylum Loricifera Discovered in the Deep-sea...

Igneous zircon crystal: shows zircon had two main growth periods approx. 20 million years apart in different magmas.

Geoscientists use zircon to trace origin of Earth’s continents

Distribution of snow and ice in winter and summer on Aurica (left) and Amasia. Credit: Way et al. 2020

What will the climate be like when Earth’s next supercontinent forms?

Illustration of the Jurassic thyreophoran Scelidosaurus harrisonii, Jack Mayer Wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Only dinosaurs found in ireland described for the first time

Nearly complete exoskeleton (left) and cranidium (right) of Phantaspisauritus gen. et sp. nov. Credit: NIGPAS

New trilobite fossil reveals cephalic specialization of trilobites in Middle Cambrian

Amber piece from the site of San Just with dinosaur feather remains. Credits: S. Álvarez Parra et al. Scientific Reports

Palaeontologists describe a preservation process unique to resins

Schematic diagram showing the geometry of a typical subduction zone and the production of arc volcanoes. Credit: Xiaotao Yang

Piecing together the Alaska coastline’s fractured volcanic activity

With mouths closed, the older, smaller teeth of the ancestors of today’s sharks stood upright on the jaw, while the younger and larger teeth pointed towards the tongue and were thus invisible when the mouth was closed. Credit: Christian Klug, UZH

Prehistoric shark hid its largest teeth

A graphic showing the convective heat cycle (red arrows) that drives plate tectonic motion (black arrows) on Earth. Heat flows toward subduction zones through the uppermost mantle layer, the asthenosphere. A computer model from Rice University finds that the asthenosphere can locally drag plates along with it rather than acting exclusively as a brake on plate movements as had been widely believed. (Image courtesy of Surachit/Wikimedia Commons)

Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China

Final model for the East African Rift System. Hashed lines indicate newly discovered broad deforming zone. Arrows represent predicted tectonic plate motions. ABFZ—Andrew Bain Fracture Zone; IFZ—Indomed Fracture Zone; RSZ—Ranotsara shear zone. Figure created by D.S. Stamps.

East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting...

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