Geology Science Official

23/01/2025

Scientific and commercial activities on the moon could permanently change the lunar environment.

23/01/2025

While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about what could come next.

23/01/2025

Climate scientists are probably among those most aggrieved by Donald Trump’s return as US president.

Climate scientists are probably among those most aggrieved by Donald Trump's return as US president.

23/01/2025

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago, according to a study published 23 January in the Journal of Paleontology.

23/01/2025

Currently, the oldest known dinosaur fossils date back about 230 million years and were unearthed further south in places including Brazil, Argentina and Zimbabwe.

22/01/2025

A joint dinosaur survey conducted by Okayama University of Science (OUS) and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, has uncovered one of the largest hadrosaurid footprints ever found, measuring 92 cm in width.

The largest footprint is believed to have belonged to a giant Saurolophus, estimated to exceed 15 meters in total body length, surpassing even the Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus in size.

22/01/2025

The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany.

22/01/2025

A set of footprints impressed in clay in the Honseca Cave (Velilla del Río Carrión, Palencia), which were made by cave bears that inhabited this area during the Late Pleistocene, are the subject of a new article featured on the cover of the journal Ichnos.

21/01/2025

Land clearing for nickel mines is causing a more severe threat to the climate than initially thought, a study led by a University of Queensland researcher has found.

21/01/2025

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook Türkiye’s northwestern Çanakkale province late Tuesday, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook Türkiye's northwestern Çanakkale province late Tuesday, the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said.

21/01/2025

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, leaving 27 people with minor injuries and some reported damage.

20/01/2025

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars’ barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks here were once soaked with water, a new study reveals.

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars' barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks here were once soaked with water, a new study reveals.

20/01/2025

Ethiopia’s Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025.

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025.

19/01/2025

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.

19/01/2025

Astronomers have been battling threats to their clear skies on all fronts lately.

19/01/2025

A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted at least a thousand times this month, according to an official report Sunday as efforts were underway to evacuate thousands of villagers living near the rumbling mountain.

17/01/2025

The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during the Silurian and Devonian periods, is considered plant terrestrialization, which can be seen as the terrestrial equivalent of the Cambrian explosion of marine animals.

As a predominant and typical component of Early Devonian floras, Zosterophyllopsida has a long history of research and has been widely documented in paleontology textbooks.

17/01/2025

The Santa Ana winds fanning wildfires that have killed at least 25 people in Southern California and destroyed more than 10,000 houses, businesses and other structures in Greater Los Angeles are flaring up again.