April 2023

52-Million-Year-Old Bat Skeletons Are the Oldest Ever

Two 52 million-year-old bat skeletons discovered in an ancient lake bed in Wyoming are the oldest bat fossils ever found — a…

Enormous amounts of gold lie buried beneath the rubble of New Zealand’s mountains, and scientists are using freshwater fish …

The La Madona Rosa, a specimen of rose quartz , set a price record as the most expensive fine mineral specimen ever offered …

A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky before landing near the b…

Beetles may have eaten dinosaur feathers and lived in their nests. Remains preserved in amber from 105 million years ago are…

Volcanic eruptions millions of years apart wiped out much of life on Earth. Massive volcanic eruptions millions of years apa…

Bacon opal is a hyalite opal , which is generally colorless, but the mineral impurities give it a wide range of colors. Thi…

Onyx Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony, which is a type of microcrystalline quartz. Onyx is characterized by its paral…

Scientists have found uracil, one of the key building blocks for RNA, on the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu For the…

Zeunerite is a rare uranyl arsenate that is similar to the more well known uranyl phosphate mineral torbernite. The two mine…

A gold miner found the mysterious fur ball in 2018 in the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City, Yukon, according to the Yuk…

Unravelling the mystery of the 'Tully monster': Bizarre 300-million-year-old creature with eyes on stalks and terrif…

Rare 'diamond within a diamond' is unearthed in India and is named the 'Beating Heart'. This diamond is part…

Underneath the Earth’s crust we know there is a hot mantle and an even hotter outer and inner core, but now experts say we m…