Photo of the oviraptorosaur embryo inside its fossilized egg. (Xing et al., iScience, 2021) A rare look inside a fossilized dinosaur egg fou...
Ancient Pine Cone Trapped in Amber Shows a Super-Rare Form of Plant 'Parenting'
Photo: (Poinar, Historical Biology, 2021) An exceptional amber deposit from roughly 40 million years ago has captured a rare form of paren...
Earth’s Early Magma Oceans Detected in 3.7 Billion Year-Old Greenland Rocks
The Earth is now composed of the inner core, the outer core, the lower mantle, the upper mantle, and the crust. Earth hasn’t always been a...
Woman Finds 4.38-carat Diamond at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park
The Lucy Diamond discovered by Noreen Wredberg at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Photo courtesy of Arkansas State ...
100-Million-Year-Old Insect Fossil Intrigues Scientists
Many fossil lacewing larvae possessed extremely elongated appendages and mouthparts. | © Joachim Haug Scientists found an unusual fossil o...
Trapiche Emerald: The Superstar of Trapiche Gemstones
Very rare crystal Trapiche Emerald from Muso Mine, Colombia. Photo: Cricksgemstone Trapiche emerald is a rare and highly valuable variety ...
Scientists Figure Out What Happens to Earth's Disappearing Crust
Researchers including The University of Texas at Austin have published a study in Nature that says subducting tectonic plates become segment...
Uncovering the Surprising Secrets Behind Earth’s First Major Mass Extinction
Fossiliferous limestone slab from the Liberty Formation (Upper Ordovician) of Caesar Creek State Park near Waynesville, Ohio. Photo: Willy ...
Diamond Hauled From Deep Inside Earth Holds Never-Before-Seen Mineral
The Tiny Gray Blobs of Mineral Embedded in This Slice of Clear Diamond Are the First Samples of Newly Named Davemaoite, a Calcium Silicate P...
Baby Bird Fossil Is 'Rarest of the Rare'
The fossil seen under synchrotron radiation. Photo: Fabien Knoll The chick lived 127 million years ago and belonged to a group of primitive ...
Jurassic Graveyard Reveals Oldest Evidence That Dinosaurs Traveled in Herds
A nest of 192 million-year-old fossilized eggs found in Argentina. (Diego Po) The discovery included more than 100 dinosaur eggs and the p...
Giant Ammonites Once Thrived on Both Sides of Atlantic
This was a replica that we used to show how big ammonites could grow. Made of polystyrene it squeaked as we rolled it down the beach at Lyme...
Tiny Crab Preserved in 100-million-year-old Amber Lived Among Dinosaurs
Cretapsara athanata, a modern-looking eubrachyuran crab in Burmese amber. Image credit: Luque Scientists have found the oldest aquatic anima...
Evidence of Ancient Life Was Discovered Inside a Ruby
The ruby found to contain carbon-12 graphite. (University of Waterloo) A ruby that formed in Earth's crust 2.5 billion years ago encas...