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Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth's surface
14+ hour, 52+ min ago (1128+ words) Ancient crust buried beneath modern mountains suggests Gondwana once contained about 80% of Earth’s continental landmass. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Hundreds of millions of years after Gondwana broke apart, enormous pieces of the ancient landmass may still be hiding beneath some…...
New imaging technique exposes saltwater threat to groundwater
21+ hour, 49+ min ago (233+ words) Muscat – Researchers at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) have mapped a large wedge of seawater extending into a coastal aquifer in northern Oman, providing a new baseline for monitoring a threat that has damaged groundwater quality and affected agriculture. The study,…...
A 500-Kilometer Zone Under Italy Reveals a Strange Movement Deep Inside Earth’s Crust
19+ hour, 43+ min ago (649+ words) Something is quietly shifting deep beneath Italy, invisible to anyone standing above it. New research has now brought that hidden process to light, revealing an unexpected way Earth's crust continues to evolve. Deep beneath Italy, a slow geological process is…...
Ryugu’s Hidden Chemistry Reveals How Space Rocks May Have Delivered Life’s Ingredients To Earth
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (723+ words) Ancient dust from asteroid Ryugu reveals how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived before reaching young planets. Tiny grains collected from asteroid Ryugu have revealed how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived in space before reaching young planets....
Italy’s Apennine Mountains mystery: Why is Earth’s crust slowly ‘unzipping’ deep underground, and what is happening beneath the surface?
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (470+ words) Scientists studying Italy’s Apennine Mountains have found a strange process deep below the surface. The Earth’s crust in this region appears to be slowly pulling apart, almost like a zip opening from underground. The finding comes from researchers at the…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (635+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
Global Team Boosts Radiocarbon Dating with Marine Fossils
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (643+ words) Sedimentation is more important than other factors in the 'time averaging' of marine fossils The investigators analysed more than 7,500 fossils, which were collected from a variety of oceanic environments around the world ANSTO has contributed to a large international study…...
Earth's Crust Is 'Unzipping' Under Italy
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (606+ words) Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning....
Tanzania’s Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only active volcano known to erupt natrocarbonatite, the coolest lava on Earth: it flows at roughly 500–590°C, against 1,100°C or more for Hawaiian basalt. Fresh flows look black or dark brown in daylight, then react with rain and atmospheric moisture until the mountainside turns chalk-white—as though someone spilled milk over the lava.
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (791+ words) Ol Doinyo Lengai’s 500–590°C carbonate lava flows black, then atmospheric moisture and rain transform its unstable minerals into pale, rapidly weathering surfaces....
Sample: Polymetallic Crust
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (97+ words) This scoop of polymetallic crust was collected from a small ridge structure on a seamount during Dive 01 of the 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration expedition. The color checker is included in the photo to help document changes in mineralogy that…...