December 2021

Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg

Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg Photo of the oviraptorosaur embryo inside its fossilized egg. (Xi…

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 ra…

Conichalcite Crysyals Aggregates

Conichalcite Crysyals Aggregates. Locality: Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Photo: Mi…

Turtle Egg 90 Million Years Old, Larger Than Humans

Hell’s Shells: 90 Million-Year-Old Egg From Turtle Bigger Than Humans A giant fossilized turtle egg — believed to have been …

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…