Extinct Woolly Rhinoceros Found Frozen in Siberian Permafrost
Extinct Woolly Rhinoceros Found Frozen in Siberian Permafrost. Sasha the baby woolly rhino found in 2014 in Yakutia lived 34…
December 2020
Kernowite: New Green Mineral Discovered in 220-year-old Rock
Known from just a single location, a new species of mineral has been described from the UK. A sample of rock that was collec…
99-Million-Year-Old Fossil Flower Found Encased in Burmese Amber
A rare flower is finally getting its moment in the sun, almost 100 million years after it blossomed. Researchers at Oregon S…
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. GEO…
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 horro…
World's Oldest Python Fossil Unearthed
Palaeontologists have named the world's oldest-known species of python after uncovering well-preserved 47-million-year-o…
Crystal Zoning
Crystal Zoning. Beautiful Zoning Purple Fluorite Crystals from Minerva Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA Photo credit: Anton W…
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 …
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 the…
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 =…
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 kno…