Conventional theory holds that all of the early Earth's crustal ingredients were formed by volcanic activity. Now, however, earth scientists have put forth a theory with a novel twist: some of the chemical components of this material settled onto...
This is a Galeamopus pabsti in its environment in the Late Jurassic of North America. An Allosaurus and two Ceratosaurus are feeding on a carcass of Galeamopus pabsti.
Credit: Davide Bonadonna
Researchers from Italy and Portugal describe yet another new sauropod...
This is the Larsen C ice rift aerial view.
Credit: John Sonntag/NASA
The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica now has a second branch, which is moving in the direction of the ice front, Swansea University researchers revealed...
Illustration based on computer model shows how the hanging wall (right) of a thrust fault can twist away from the foot wall (left) during an earthquake.
Credit: Harsha Bhat/ENS
It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing...
Panoramic view of an ice cliff inside the Sc?ri?oara Ice Cave, where the research was done.
Credit: Gigi Fratila & Claudiu Szabo
Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather...
Panoramic view of an ice cliff inside the Sc?ri?oara Ice Cave, where the research was done.
Credit: Gigi Fratila & Claudiu Szabo
Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather...
The study examined a rock fulgurite -- a thin layer of glass that forms when lightning strikes a rock's surface. The sample was collected from northern Italy's Mount Mottarone.
Credit: Reto Gieré
Benjamin Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, is...
A concentration of fossil bone and rock. The unusual positions of the femur heads, one up and one down, broken in the same manner next to each other is unusual. Mastodon molars are located in the lower right hand...
Blood Falls is a famous iron-rich outflow of water that scientists suspected was connected to a water source that may have been trapped under an Antarctic glacier for more than a million years.
Credit: Erin Pettit
A research team led by...
In the past, scientists typically avoided linking individual weather events to climate change, citing the challenges of teasing apart human influence from the natural variability of the weather. But that is changing.
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After an unusually...
Scientists have discovered that seasonally flowing streams fringe much of Antarctica's ice. Each red 'X' represents a separate drainage. Up to now, such features were thought to exist mainly on the far northerly Antarctic Peninsula (upper left). Their widespread...
