Sasha the baby woolly rhino found in 2014 in Yakutia lived 34,000 years ago. Picture: Albert Protopopov AN EXTINCT woolly rhinoceros has be...
Kernowite: New Green Mineral Discovered in 220-year-old Rock
Kernowite: New Green Mineral Discovered in 220-year-old Rock. Kernowite (green color). Image credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Mus...
99-Million-Year-Old Fossil Flower Found Encased in Burmese Amber
99-Million-Year-Old Fossil Flower Found Encased in Burmese Amber. Valviloculus pleristaminis, flower in lateral view. Image credit: Poinar, ...
Slow Start of Plate Tectonics Despite a Hot Early Earth
The extrusion of fresh ocean crust at midocean ridges began to slacken 15 million years ago, perhaps cooling the planet. GEOGPHOTOS/ALAMY ST...
Kilauea Volcano Erupts on Hawaii's Big Island
An eruption started at Kīlauea summit on Dec. 20 Photo: USGS In Hawaii, this cursed year is going out with even more horror. The volcano K...
World's Oldest Python Fossil Unearthed
World's Oldest Python Fossil Unearthed. The first discovered fossil belonging to the newfound species Messelopython freyi. (Image credit...
Crystal Zoning
Crystal Zoning. Beautiful Zoning Purple Fluorite Crystals from Minerva Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA Photo credit: Anton Watzl Crystal z...
Five-Eyed 520-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Arthropod Origin
Fossil specimen of Kylinxia, holotype. Credit: ZENG Han The arthropods have been among the most successful animals on Earth since the Cambri...
Scientists Solve the Molecular Puzzle of 'Flammable Ice'
There's a weird type of 'ice' found in the ocean that burns when exposed to a flame - and scientists think they've finally...
Hot Rock Rising Beneath Central Greenland Is Melting the Ice From Below
A schematic diagram showing the main tectonic features and mantle plumes beneath Greenland and the surrounding regions. Vp = P wave velocity...
Alaska Islands May Be Part of a Single, Massive Volcano
Location map of the Islands of Four Mountains in the Aleutian arc. This also shows the position and approximate areas of known calderas alon...
99-Million-Year-Old Amphibian With Slingshot-style Tongue Found
The skull encased in amber. Image credits Florida Museum / Edward Stanley. Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids ...
Newly Discovered Volcanic Mineral Could Lead To More Efficient Batteries
Petrovite, a new mineral described from Tolbachik Volcano in Siberia, could lead to the development of more efficient batteries. SPBU Vol...
Researchers Discover 'Missing' Piece of Hawaii's Formation
The journey of Hawaii's pancake from its creation at the mantle plume to where it slipped under the Pacific plate and sunk deep into t...
The Helicoprion Was A Shark With A Buzzsaw In Its Mouth
Helicoprion. Photo: James St. John / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Terrorizing the seas nearly 300 million years ago, the Helicoprion was a bizarre spe...
Man Becomes Overnight Millionaire After Meteorite Crashes Through His Roof
The space rock, which weighed around 2.1kg, turned out to be worth around US $1.85 million. An Indonesian coffin maker became an instant m...