What Caused the World's Greatest Extinction?
A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the 10-foot (0.3-meter) predator Dinogorgon, …
A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the 10-foot (0.3-meter) predator Dinogorgon, …
Map showing the Zealandia 'new continent', a massive underwater landmass in the South Pacific that has never been…
Sapphire Rough New Research Could Make It Easier to Find High-quality Canadian Sapphires New research from UBC min…
Molten Rock. New data reveal an unprecedented depiction of a region of partially molten rock deep within the Earth, w…
The geomagnetic field is critical to life on Earth. Scientists have identified patterns in Earth's magnetic field …
The Mysterious Penitentes Transform the Desert Into an Alien Landscape The penitentes are a curious natural phenomenon …
Epitactic Overgrowth of Hinsdalite on Corkite Hemispheres. Photo credit: Matthias Reinhardt Epitactic overgrowth of hi…
Seraphinite is a trade name for a particular form of clinochlore, a member of the chlorite group. The dark green color of s…
The lost pink and white terraces, the eight natural wonder of the world Scientists believe they have finally discovere…
Image courtesy Sea-Mer Association Hundreds of yellow, fluffy blobs of mystery material have washed up on the shores of…
Stromatolites. For three years, Tara Djokic, a Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales Sydney, scoured the…
Lesedi la Rona is the largest diamond discovered in more than a century, and the second-biggest ever found. A Canadia…
Larimar is actually a rock, being composed of more than one mineral, but is mostly composed of pectolite, an acid silicate …
Growing gap: Alex Mustard, dived 80ft into the crevice between the North American and Eurasian plates near Iceland to cap…
Mammoths went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, with scientists unsure whether human hunting or climate change finished…
Spectacular Azurite Crystal Flowers in Vug. Photo Credit: Tóth László Azurite |#Geology…
Earth creates its own magnetic field, suggests new research. Scientists are changing our idea of the Earth's magne…