Earth has been warmer than today over the past 485 million years, but humans and animals cannot adapt fast enough to keep up with human-caused climate change at the rate it is happening today and in the future. Shutterstock

Over nearly half a billion years, Earth’s global temperature has changed...

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Extinct volcanoes a ‘rich’ source of rare earth elements

"Lava" Earth's mantle

New research reenvisions Earth’s mantle as a relatively uniform reservoir

Climate-change-triggered 2023 mega-landslide caused Earth to vibrate for nine days

A diagram showing seismic waves traveling through Earth where the newly discovered doughnut-shaped region was detected. Image: Xiaolong Ma and Hrvoje Tkalčić/ANU

Doughnut-shaped region found inside Earth’s core deepens understanding of planet’s magnetic...

General view of the Lo Hueco site during the excavation of Qunkasaura in 2007. Credit: GBE-UNED

New sauropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous discovered in the Iberian Peninsula

Robsonomyia baltica sp. nov. (NHMD-300551): (A) male (holotype No NHMD-300551a); (B) amber piece with position of male; (C) female (paratype No NHMD-300551b); (D) female (paratype No NHMD-300551c); (E) amber piece with position of females. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59448-y

Fungus gnat entombed in a 40-million-year-old piece of amber is a...

The teeth of Iguanodon weren't as adapted for chewing, and formed much more slowly, than those of their later relatives. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

Plant-eating dinosaurs evolved backup teeth to eat tough food, research reveals

Inabtanin alarabia, left, and Arambourgiania philadelphiae, right. With flying styles also demonstrated. ©Terryl Whitlatch

Some Pterosaurs Would Flap, Others Would Soar

A new study from MIT offers an explanation for how dinosaur collagen survived for so much longer than expected. Credits:Credit: MIT News, iStock

Chemists explain why dinosaur collagen may have survived for millions of...

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