March 2022

Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year 'Heartbeat', But We Have No Idea What Causes It

Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year 'Heartbeat', But We Have No Idea What Causes It In the last 260 million years, dinosau…

Scientists Map Yellowstone’s Underground ‘Plumbing’

Scientists Map Yellowstone’s Underground ‘Plumbing’   Hidden Channels Beneath Yellowstone Have Been Revealed For The First T…

Tiny Magnetic Waves Have Been Discovered in Earth’s Core

Tiny Magnetic Waves Have Been Discovered in Earth’s Core. Diagram showing wave-like flow at the surface of Earth’s outer cor…

Traces of Life in the Earth's Deep Mantle

Kimberlites are complex rocks that came to the Earth's surface from great depths. The picture shows a thin section of a …

Geologists Have Closely Analyzed Two Bizarre 'Blobs' Detected Deep Inside Earth

Earth's interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemi…

Emmonsite Crystal Spray

Emmonsite crystal spray from the Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Municipio de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Photo: Christian Rewitze…

110-million-year-old Lizard Rhetinosaurus Found in Amber

Paleontologists have found a new species of lizard in a piece of amber excavated from a mine in Myanmar. Juan Diego Daza, as…

Cetineite Crystals

Cetineite Crystals. Collection and photograph: Christian Rewitzer   Cetineite A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing antim…

A Slow-Motion Section Of San Andreas Fault May Not Be So Harmless After All

The San Andreas Fault is an 800-mile-long sliding tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. …