What caused an extreme ice-age climate in Earth’s history?
What made Earth a giant snowball 700m years ago?
Scientists decoded millions of mysterious pits in the ocean
For the first time how vertebrates shape the North Sea seafloor.
Himalayas had a leg up before reaching the skies
A new technique for measuring past topography.
Scientists discovered traces of the world’s oldest known glaciers
Scientists found evidence from relative oxygen isotope concentrations in ancient rocks.
The 36 million-year geological cycle that drives biodiversity
Tectonic movements change sea levels, potentially generating life-giving ecosystems.
A 500 million-year-old fossil reveals the amazing secrets of tunicate origins
Fossil Mega siphon thylakos reveals ancestral tunicates lived stationary.
The Campi Flegrei volcano’s crust is weakening
The Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy is weakening and potentially erupting.
Exploring the history of ocean chemistry through deep-sea corals
Ocean currents are not responsible for the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The first side-necked turtle was discovered in the UK
A fossil was discovered on an Isle of wight national trust beach.
An unexpected distortion in the world’s largest continental rift
The african superplume is responsible for rift-parallel seismic anisotropy.
Giants of the jurassic seas were twice as large as killer whales
Paleontologists have discovered that a pliosaur could have grown to 14.4 metres.
The research sheds light on earth’s past processes
Ancient volcanism is common in archaean cratons.