2022

100 Million-Year-Old Plesiosaur Skeleton Found in Australia

100 Million-Year-Old Plesiosaur Skeleton Found in Australia. The skull of the 100 million-year-old plesiosaur found in Queen…

Ancestors of 'Veggie' Dinosaurs Actually Feasted on Meat

Ancestors of 'Veggie' Dinosaurs Actually Feasted on Meat Photo Credit: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz A comprehensive new stu…

Earth's North Magnetic Pole Is Heading Towards Siberia

Over the last century, the position of the magnetic north pole has shifted from the Canadian Arctic to Siberia. When you thi…

Fossilized Cockroach Sperm Found Preserved In 30 Million-Year-Old Amber

Fossilized Cockroach Sperm Found Preserved In 30 Million-Year-Old Amber. Supella domincana. Image Credit: George Poinar Jr F…

Rainbow Lattice Feldspar: A Phenomenal New Gem

Rainbow lattice feldspar is a rare and unusual gemstone that is found only in one place in the world. This phenomenal gem is…

Ancient ‘Cooked Bone Mystery’ That’s 300 Million Years Old Finally Solved

Warped amphibian-like fossils in Ireland were likely transformed by superheated fluids that were released as ancient contine…

Minnesota Couple Unearths 1.9 Carat Diamond at Arkansas State Park

Minnesota Couple Unearths 1.9 Carat Diamond at Arkansas State Park.The 1.90-carat diamond found by the Ericksons. Photo: Ark…

The Biggest Mercury Concentration in the World

The Biggest Mercury Concentration in the World. Cinnabar ore from Almadén mining district, Spain. Cinnabar (HgS, red mineral…

Study: Yellowstone Magma Much Bigger Than Thought

Study: Yellowstone Magma Much Bigger Than Thought   The Yellowstone supervolcano in northwest Wyoming isn't just one of …

Howardite: Rattlesnake Jasper

Howardite is an Opalised silicate with a distinctive interwoven and banded pattern and is noted for its rich golden yellow a…

Extra Hard Space Diamonds May Have Formed in an Ancient Cosmic Collision

Extra Hard Space Diamonds May Have Formed in an Ancient Cosmic Collision. Folded Lonsdaleite, Purple, With Diamond in Green-…

Scientists Discover Two ‘Alien’ Minerals In Meteorite

Scientists Discover Two ‘Alien’ Minerals In Meteorite. A slice of the El Ali meteorite, now housed in the University of Albe…

Tiny Bubbles of an Ancient Ocean Found Trapped Inside Rocks in New York

Ancient seawater pockets trapped in an iron pyrite framboid. (Daniel Gregory, University of Toronto/Cortland Johnson, Pacifi…

Ancient Swamp Was Sex Death Trap for Hundreds of Frogs

The skeleton of a frog that likely died after mating, and broke in half in water currents. (Photo: D. Falk) If you want to l…

Oldest Army Ant Found in 35-Million-Year-Old Baltic Amber

Oldest army ant on record. Image Credit: Sosiak et al., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; © President and F…

Workers Dug Into A Nest Of Dinosaur Eggs 80 Million Years Old

Fossilized dinosaur eggs found in Wuning county, East China's Jiangxi Province Photo: Courtesy of Wuning County Museum M…

Mass Extinctions May Have Been Driven by the Evolution of Tree Roots

Mass Extinctions May Have Been Driven by the Evolution of Tree Roots. Fossilized tree roots in limestone blocks A series of …

Crystals That Generate Electricity From Heat

A synthetic sulfide mineral with thermoelectric properties. In the effort to efficiently convert heat into electricity, ea…