In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and islands we see today, and humans have quickly...
Scientists Map Yellowstone’s Underground ‘Plumbing’
Hidden Channels Beneath Yellowstone Have Been Revealed For The First Time Researchers mapped the national park's hydrothermal 'plu...
Tiny Magnetic Waves Have Been Discovered in Earth’s Core
Diagram showing wave-like flow at the surface of Earth’s outer core and background magnetic field lines. Photo: Felix Gerick Fluctuations in...
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 carbonate-rich ...
Geologists Have Closely Analyzed Two Bizarre 'Blobs' Detected Deep Inside Earth
A 3D view of the blob in Earth’s mantle beneath Africa, shown by the red-yellow-orange colors. The cyan color represents the core-mantle bou...
110-million-year-old Lizard Rhetinosaurus Found in Amber
General view of Retinosaurus hkamtiensis: (a) photograph of the specimen credit: Čerňanský et al Paleontologists have found a new species...
A Slow-Motion Section Of San Andreas Fault May Not Be So Harmless After All
San Andreas fault in San Luis Obispo County. Photo: Ricardo DeAratanha The San Andreas Fault is an 800-mile-long sliding tectonic boundar...