November 2019

Scientists Discover 'Ice Fossils' in a 4.6 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Shard

XCT slice images of equant samples of the Acfer 094 matrix A 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite landed in Algeria in 1990…

Opalized petrified wood is a type of petrified wood that has been partially or completely replaced by opal. Wood opal is f…

Lost continents, also known as sunken continents, are hypothetical continents that are believed to have existed at some poin…

Superhard materials can slice, drill and polish other objects. They also hold potential for creating scratch-resistant …

Tungsten rods with evaporated crystals. Photo: Alchemist-hp Australia and the US' respective geoscience agencies…

Fabulous Azurite Crystals. Credit: Mintreasure.com Exceptional azurite crystals on matrix from the famed Clara Mine, …

Hot lava spew from the crater of Mount Merapi as seen from Babadan village in Magelang in 2001. Credit: Dita Alangkara/AP…

The Gachalá Emerald is one of the most famous and valuable emeralds in the world, named after the town of Gachalá in Colombi…

Artist’s depiction of Fukuipteryx prima. Image: Masanori Yoshida The fossils of a bird that lived 120 million years …

Artist’s impression of Tullimonstrum, and The Tullimonstrum fossil. Ghedoghedo/Wikimedia Every now and again, scienti…

Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in southwestern Turkey famous for its white trave…

Fossilised 20 centimetre long hand claw of theropod discovered at Eric the West site on Victoria’s Otway Coast. Credit: S…

Photo: The Mineral Collective A new way to date a common mineral could help pinpoint ore deposits and improve mineral …

Do tectonic plates move because of motion in the Earth's mantle, or is the mantle driven by the movement of the pla…