November 2022

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…

Kummakivi, Balancing Rock, Seems to Defy the Laws of Physics

Kummakivi is a 5,00000 Kg Rock in Finland That Has Been Balancing on Top of Another Rock for 11,000 Years. Kummakivi is a la…

3.5 Billion-year-old Rock Structures Are One of the Oldest Signs of Life on Earth

A sample of Dresser Formation stromatolite, showing a complex layered structure formed of hematite, barite, and quartz, and …

Richat Structure: Geological Wonder in the Sahara Desert

Richat Structure: Geological Wonder in the Sahara Desert A geologic dome, the Richat Structure has concentric bands of resis…

Snail From 99 Million Years Ago Discovered With Hairs Growing on Shell

The 99-million-year-old amber containing the tiny snail. (Photo: Senckenberg)   A snail preserved in amber with an intact fr…