7+ hour, 11+ min ago   (96+ words) A study of 70,000 earthquakes finds tiny tremors often precede larger fracking-linked quakes, offering a warning to halt fluid injection....

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (539+ words) New fossil pushes a shift from egg laying to live birth back by 90 million years A life reconstruction of the cynodont Chiniquodon theotonicus, which lived about 236 million years ago, portraying a pregnant female (illustrated, left) and a female nursing a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (425+ words) A slow grassland burn gave off enough infrasound for sensors to follow its spread Researchers tracked this prescribed fire in Idaho using acoustic sensors. It’s not just eyes on a fire — it’s now ears, too. A low-intensity grassland fire “hums…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (533+ words) Sample ages bolster a rising tide doubting a singular 3.9 billion-year-old lunar cataclysm CNSA, Handout via Xinhua Bits of rock from the farside of the moon are adding weight to a scientific rethink about the solar system’s adolescence. The moon’s craters…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (451+ words) A newfound species of ancient snake, named Tametara mirim (illustrated), would have lived alongside ancient birds and sauropod dinosaurs 85 million years ago in what is now Brazil. Most snake fossils are two-dimensional. Sandwiched within rocks, the pressure of millions of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (137+ words) The brine-formed meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey roof in 2024 could teach us about how life first arrived on Earth....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (348+ words) The miniature hominids don't appear to have slain island elephant kin nor used fire “Hobbits” (Homo floresiensis), shown in this reconstruction of the head of the now-extinct hominid, lived on what is now the island of Flores in Indonesia. New…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (252+ words) Fossils upend a long-held theory about angiosperm evolution Extinct rodentlike mammals and dinosaurs may have been some of the vertebrates lured by flowering plants' fleshy fruits over 74 million years ago. Fruit salad may have been on the menu for some…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (181+ words) A newly described microraptor species may explain the avian carnage at a Chinese fossil site In this illustration, the newly-described dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, ambushes an early Cretaceous bird, Gansus yumenensus. How capable this gliding predator was at snagging prey in…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (475+ words) The shift from water to land didn’t require amphibian-like metamorphosis, fossils reveal Early vertebrates that made the transition from water to land were born looking like smaller versions of their parents, as this illustration of crocodile-like embolomeres shows. “We kind…...