1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (787+ words) For many years a source of irritation, a fossil of the Brazilian spinosaurid Irritator challengeri is now bringing some joy to paleontologists in its homeland. Following a successful public campaign for restitution, the piece is returning to Brazil from the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (146+ words) AGU Publications is thrilled to welcome Dr. Sarah Feakins as the new Editor-in-Chief of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. Here, we asked her some questions about her own research interests and her vision for the journal. What are your own areas of…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (377+ words) Cooler waters near Norway's north provided a refuge for phytoplankton during the Great Dying, a new study suggests. Earth's largest mass extinction occurred around 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, disrupting the global carbon…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1179+ words) Dinosaurs" eating habits and, later, their extinction may have altered the course of rivers in ancient North America, according to a new paper published in Communications Earth and Environment." "Ecosystem engineer" is the term ecologists use for a species that…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (573+ words) Micrometeorites, unlike their larger brethren, rarely get a spotlight at museums. But there's plenty to learn from these extraterrestrial particles, despite the largest of them measuring just millimeters across. Researchers recently analyzed fossilized micrometeorites that fell to Earth millions of…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (359+ words) [An 8-centimeter-long metric ruler has silhouetted images of the classic "evolution of man." The ruler is next to a fossil of a leaf.]Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and…...