5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (974+ words) When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ever-present geological threat: volcanoes. While you might associate. .. When you think of the United States, images of…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (318+ words) The discovery of salt giants in the Dead Sea'formed from a perfect mixture of conditions in the terminal lake'presents a prime opportunity to study how these geological formations coalesce. Researchers behind a new study analyzed these salt giants and compared…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (809+ words) Before this discovery, the scarcity of Silurian fossil records created a massive data gap. Another fossil discovery from 423 million years ago solved an ongoing mystery around ancient teeth. The Silurian period was defined by warmer waters that allowed marine life…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (740+ words) Researchers uncovered a startling shift since 20142015, years marked by a record-setting El Ni'o event. Since then, drying has sped up across the Northern Hemisphere, and several smaller "hotspots" have merged into four massive dry zones. The shift wasn't expected. Even…...

1+ year, 1+ week ago  (601+ words) Earth has existed for so long (about 4. 5 billion years) that scientists needed a reference and communication system that could describe vast periods. They created the geological timescale to do this, enabling geologists in particular to describe and convey their findings…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (289+ words) REYNISFJARA, Iceland " An iconic beach in Iceland is undergoing some massive changes due to uncontrollable circumstances. Reynisfjara Beach, also known as the black sand beach, is most famous for its black volcanic sand and towering rock pillars rising out of…...

7+ mon, 18+ hour ago  (1020+ words) A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5, 000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of the United States. The abnormally warm "blob" of ocean water, which is getting…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (634+ words) During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past'one shaped by powerful monsoons, vast lakes, and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1113+ words) Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For tens of millions of years, those early…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1023+ words) A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat " an epic meeting of two of the world's favorite dinosaurs: Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex. Or so paleontologists thought. Researchers…...