Geoscientists used to think volcanic hotspots were stationary. It helped us understand how tectonic plates - and continents - moved ...
Scientists Found Evidence That Earth's Magnetic Poles May Be Getting Ready to Flip
Earth’s geomagnetic field surrounds and protects our planet from harmful space radiation. Using new data gathered from sites in south...
Facts About Pangaea the Most Recent Supercontinent
Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental un...
Extinct Lakes of the American Desert West
Superior dry lake bed near Black Canyon California Identification of ancient lake shoreline features began with early explorers of the...
Conch Pearl: The Only Natural Pink Pearl
Collection of fine quality pink conch pearls. photo: MONILI What are conch pearls? Pretty and pastel-hued, a conch pearl is a ca...
Gallium Is A Metal That Melts In Your Hands
Gallium is a soft, silvery metal used primarily in electronic circuits, semiconductors and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It is also use...
How Magma Feeds Volcanic Eruptions
Mount Agung A novel research study by scientists at the University of Liverpool has provided new insights into how molten rock (magma...
Download the International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2018
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), sometimes referred to by the unofficial name "International Stratigraphic Com...
Continental Interiors May Not Be as Tectonically Stable as Geologists Think
Cratonic lithosphere with a high-density root undergoes delamination when perturbed by mantle plumes from beneath. The removed cratonic r...
Land Plants Appeared on Land 100 Million Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought
For the first four billion years of Earth's history, our planet's continents would have been devoid of all life except microbes...
Swarm of 200 Earthquakes Hits Yellowstone Supervolcano
Regular earthquakes are bad enough. Volcanoes too. But an earthquake swarm at a supervolcano? That really sounds like it could be scary...
Earth’s Crust Absorbs Lots of Carbon Dioxide, But Not Enough to Save Humanity
The oceanic slow carbon cycle. The seafloor is absorbing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most associated with climate change, accor...
The Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found in California
Photo by "Funnyaccent" channel on Youtube The largest gold nugget ever found in Sierra County, known as the “Monumental,” we...
New Arctic Diamond Deposits Discovered
The 187.7 carat diamond Mine in the remote Northwest Territories of Canada, 220km south of the Arctic Circle. Arctic Star Exploratio...
Part Spider, Part Scorpion Creature Found in Amber
Amber preserved in exquisite detail these 100-million-year-old close relatives to spiders. Spiders used to have tails says new resea...
Dinocochlea: a Solution to the Mysterious Giant Snail
Left: Apical whorl of the large dextral specimen of Dinocochlea. Right: A model of Dinocochlea with Natural History Museum research sci...