Nekemias mucronata fossil lateral leaflets from the collection of the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona.

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the grape family

Riograndia and Brasilodon Credit: Jorge Blanco

Brazilian fossils reveal jaw-dropping discovery in mammal evolution

Results of the multimodal analysis conducted on microfossils mounted on ITO glass. Optical observation, electron microscopy, and secondary ion mass spectrometry were performed on the same sample. The analysis successfully detected phosphorus and molybdenum aligned with the microfossil's membrane structure for the first time. ©Tohoku University

Unveiling ancient life: New method sheds light on early cellular and...

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...

volcano

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...

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