2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1364+ words) A 21.9-million-year-old volcanic blanket preserved clues showing part of the Andes may have risen slowly for millions of years. (CREDIT: Frances J. Cooper) A volcanic eruption of extraordinary size buried an entire Andean landscape nearly 22 million years ago. Instead of erasing…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago   (620+ words) 620 CKRM Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is horticulture’s best-known living fossil. Abundant and cosmopolitan in the fossil record extending back 270 million years, the tree was thought long extinct by Western scientists. Then in 1690 botanist Engelbert Kaempfer…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (83+ words) Bioengineer.org For now, the specimen rests in the type collection under catalogue number PB206132, available for scrutiny by other researchers. The open-access publication ensures that the images and reconstructions can be independently assessed, an important step given how consequential the…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (54+ words) K.J. Genualdo • about 3 hours ago Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:55PM EDT Resolution: (1602px x 2048px) File size: 480 KB 11 views (11 from today) extinction, paleo art, art...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1083+ words) The University of Queensland pitch drop experiment has been running since 1927, dripped nine times, and never once been seen falling by a human eye. The tenth drop is now forming. By The Long View Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Inside…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (107+ words) Credit: Takashi Kamijo, University of Tsukuba This study provides rare genetic evidence of how plants colonize newly formed volcanic islands and offers important insights into the earliest stages of ecosystem establishment in isolated oceanic environments. The findings also highlight the…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (468+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:52 Amber-preserved flowers from Southeast China show that lianas were already an established component of tropical rainforests 15 million years ago, during the Miocene. Researchers from China, France, Germany and…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (273+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:02 Over the past 100 years, mammalogy has undergone a fundamental transformation: what was once a predominantly descriptive discipline has evolved into a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary field of research, the findings…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (285+ words) Nature Reviews Earth & Environment volume 7, pages 565–566 (2026) Cite this article The rejection of the proposal for Anthropocene as a formal epoch of the Geological Time Scale has attracted wide interest in the stratigraphic aspects of the debate. Here, we clarify the…...