Some Rare Diamonds Form Out of The Remains of Once-Living Creatures
Despite humanity's intense fascination with sparkly pieces of carbon, it seems there is still plenty to learn about how …
August 2021
Nature Recycles Trash to Create Diamonds
Map showing oceanic diamond and oceanic mantle plume occurrences. The Earth’s deepest diamonds are commonly made up of f…
Paleontologists Find Frog-Legged Beetle Fossil in Colorado
The new frog-legged beetle species, Pulchritudo attenboroughi, or Attenborough’s Beauty, was identified by Frank Krell, Denv…
‘Mammoth Weevil’ Found Preserved in Mid-Cretaceous Amber
Rhamphophorus legalovii. Image credit: Poinar & Brown, doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104948. A fossilized long-bodied we…
Billion-year 'Gap' in Grand Canyon Geological Record Explained
Billion-year 'Gap' in Grand Canyon Geological Record Explained. Angular unconformity between horizontal Tonto Group …
Giant Blobs of Subducted Sediment Float Up Through Deep Earth
Numerical modeling of sediment subducted beneath North American crust suggests that the sediment may buoyantly rise up throu…
Haiti Struck by 7.2-Magnitude Earthquake
The US Geological Survey said it's likely that casualties are "high" after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck…
A Mineral Unknown On Earth Could Be The Most Abundant Mineral On Mars
A mineral unknown on Earth could be the most abundant mineral on Mars, according to a discovery made analyzing the chemical …
More Than 1,000 Earthquakes Swarmed Yellowstone Park Last Month
The Earth is rumbling beneath Yellowstone National Park again, with swarms of more than 1,000 earthquakes recorded in the …
