Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right). (Image credit: Dr Stephan Lautenschlager, University of Birmingham).

Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites

The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016. Credit: European Space Agency. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESA ,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Wikimedia Commons

Crucial evidence explains anomalously fast convergence between India and Asia in...

Steps leading to a debris flow: drought, followed by wildfires, followed by intense precipitation. Credit: Tierney Acott/Institute of Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern

New model developed to predict landslides along wildfire burn scars

Computer modelling showed sauropod feet had a soft tissue pad. Image: Dr Andreas Jannel

Prehistoric podiatry: How dinos carried their enormous weight

Meteorites

Evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents

Spinosaurid dinosaurs teeth

The speed at which spinosaurid dinosaur teeth were replaced accounts for...

Molten lava from a Hawaiian volcano. Image: Willyam/Adobe

Volcanic super eruptions are millions of years in the making —...

Earth

Ancient source of oxygen for life hidden deep in the Earth’s...

Thin section of NASA sample, LAP 02436, Lunar Mare Basalt containing indigenous noble gases. Image type: optical microscopy, cross-​polarized light. (Image: ETH Zurich / Patrizia Will)

One more clue to the Moon’s origin

Plesiosaurus and spinosaurus may have both inhabited freshwater rivers

Plesiosaur fossils found in the Sahara suggest they weren’t just marine...

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