geology
'Cookie Monster' rock could be worth more than $10,000
It's worth a lot of cookies. A rock recently discovered in Brazil could fetch more than $10,000 -- because it bears an uncanny resemblance to "Sesame Street's" Cookie Monster, according...
Russian divers hunt for ancient bones in frozen river
Ancient shark teeth, bones of woolly rhinoceros, mammoths and other extinct animals - those are rare artifacts which attract Russian paleontologists to the ice-covered Tobol river some 1,242 miles east...
Reawakened Yellowstone geyser won’t predict the volcanic 'big one'
The famous Steamboat geyser in Yellowstone National Park won’t foretell a major volcanic eruption, according to scientists. The geyser in the Norris Geyser basin shoots water more than 300 feet into the air during...
Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur
WASHINGTON - Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an adolescent growth spurt, according...
Tectonic plate 'lost' for 60M years found hiding under Pacific Ocean
A tectonic plate "lost" for 60 million years under the Pacific Ocean has been reconstructed by scientists at the University of Houston. Known as Resurrection, the plate has been a...
13,000-year-old footsteps reveal a mother's difficult journey
The footprints illustrated the story of a mom rushing through the mud with a toddler in tow.
Map shows where your hometown was hundreds of millions of years ago
An online interactive map created by a California-based paleontologist allows people to see how their hometown moved through hundreds of millions of years of continental drift. Ian Webster, who designed...
New ocean will form in Africa as continent splits in two: scientists
The two pieces of land are pulling apart at a rate of seven millimeters per year.
Scientists identify dozens of active volcanoes on Venus
WASHINGTON - Scientists have identified 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to be recently active - and probably still are today - painting the picture of a geologically dynamic...
Scientist warn San Andreas Fault earthquake more likely after Ridgecrest quakes
Scientists have warned that last year’s Ridgecrest quakes in Southern California have increased the risk of a major San Andreas Fault earthquake. The quakes, warn catastrophe modeling company Temblor, have...
Miner now a millionaire after stumbling upon world's largest tanzanite gems
A small-scale miner in Tanzania just hit the $3M jackpot.
Asteroid that led to dinosaur extinction hit Earth at 'deadliest possible angle'
Had it come from any other direction, dinosaurs might still be around today.
Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and it's impacting satellites
Earth's magnetic field is gradually weakening in an area that stretches from Africa to South America and scientists who are trying to understand why. This weakening is also causing technical...
Scientists explain mysterious ‘lava flows’ on Mars
You don’t have to be a space science fan to realize that Mars is everyone’s obsession right now. Both NASA and the ESA are poised to send missions to the...
Lava tubes on Mars could keep astronauts safe from radiation
Humans are headed to Mars and we might be going sooner than you think. Assuming NASA’s crewed Artemis missions to the Moon go well, we could see a push to...
Coronavirus has made the Earth quieter
You don’t have to look far to see societal changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Daily life is different these days for a lot of people and those changes...
Scientists discover Antartica had a lush rainforest 90 million years ago
Most of West Antarctica and large areas of East Antarctica were once covered in rainforest, scientists say. Today's icy wasteland would've once played host to huge amounts of plant-life –...
Fragment of lost continent discovered in Canada
Geologists have discovered part of an ancient lost continent by sifting through diamond samples from Canada’s Baffin Island. By analyzing the samples, analysts identified part of the North Atlantic craton,...
Greenland shed 600 billions tons of ice in 2019
A disturbing new study notes that Greeland lost 600 billion tons of ice by the end of last summer, enough to raise global sea levels 2.2 millimeters in just two...
Earth may have been a waterworld 3.2 billion years ago
In its early years, Earth may have looked like a post-apocalyptic waterworld, according to a new study. A new study published Monday in Nature Geoscience suggests that Earth was likely...