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Fossil footprints from 313 million years ago oldest ever found in Grand Canyon
Fox News   22 August 2020   USA   Grand Canyon, Arizona  
Stephen Rowland/National Park Service
<p>Fossil footprints from 313 million years ago are the oldest to ever be found in the Grand Canyon.<br />A geology professor from Norway, Allan Krill, made the surprising discovery four years ago on a hike with students.<br />Lying next to the trail, in plain ...
'There’s still a choice': New Zealand's melting glaciers show the human fingerprints of climate change
The Guardian   03 August 2020   New Zealand  
Photograph: Dave Allen/Lauren Vargo
<p>New research has found extreme melting of the country&rsquo;s glaciers in 2018 was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused global heating.<br />Twice a year, glaciologist Lauren Vargo and her colleagues set up camp beside two small lakes close ...
Three Gorges Dam under fast mounting flood pressure
Asia Times   28 July 2020   China  
Water was discharged from the Three Gorges Dam last weekend to make room for a new deluge from upstream. Photo: Xinhua
<p>People in cities along China&rsquo;s Yangtze River, which have already been inundated with water, are now scrambling to shore up embankments and dykes before the Three Gorges Dam releases more water and towns are swamped again by the third big flood this ...
Scientists discover 115-million-year-old fossil of new dinosaur species in Brazil
DW   10 July 2020   Brazil  
Scientists believe the newly-discovered Aratasaurus museunacionali roamed the Earth 115 million years ago
<p>A team of Brazilian researchers announced on Friday the discovery of a 115-million-year-old fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of dinosaur in the northeastern state of Ceara.<br />The "Aratasaurus museunacionali" is a previously unknown species ...
14 incredible photos of natural wonders that look Photoshopped but aren't
Insider   12 June 2020   World  
Yann Arthus-Bertrand/AP
<p>Some natural wonders around the world are so distinctive that photos of them look like they've been edited in Photoshop.<br>These landscapes haven't been manipulated with photo-editing software — they occur naturally.<br>Featured places include Yellowstone's ...
The beautiful GEOPARKS of Greece
Neos Kosmos   26 May 2020   Greece  
Chelmos Mountain. Photo: Wikipedia
<p>Can you think of an area that combines geology with environment, sustainable development, culture and tourism? Well, the answer is Global Geoparks. According to UNESCO, that has developed a Network of such Geoparks, these places are &ldquo;single, unified ...
200-Million-Year-Old ‘Squid-Like’ Creature Attack Captured in Ancient Fossil
Sci Tech Daily   06 May 2020   England  
Credit: Malcolm Hart, Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association
<p>Scientists have discovered the world&rsquo;s oldest known example of a squid-like creature attacking its prey, in a fossil dating back almost 200 million years.<br />The fossil was found on the Jurassic coast of southern England in the 19th century and ...
1st known swimming dinosaur just discovered. And it was magnificent.
Live Science   30 April 2020   World  
Image: © Jason Treat, NG Staff, and Mesa Schumacher Art: Davide Bonadonna Source: Dr. Nizar Ibrahim, University of Detroit Mercy
<p>Despite old, out-of-date drawings of long-necked dinosaurs wading in swamps, scientists have long believed that dinosaurs were a land-loving bunch: None were thought to swim. Now, though, a new tail fossil found in Morocco reveals that the sharp-toothed ...
One of Geology’s Great Mysteries May Actually Be Many Smaller Mysteries
Atlas Obscura   28 April 2020   World  
The discrepancy pops up in the Grand Canyon, where ancient rock abuts, well, less ancient rock. Tenji / CC BY-SA 3.0
<p>Geology forms the context for many other fields, including archaeology, paleontology, climatology, and more, but that doesn&rsquo;t stop this bedrock science from throwing a curveball here and there. In some outcrops around the world there&rsquo;s a gap, ...
Scientists compile the first comprehensive geological map of the Moon
New Atlas   22 April 2020  
<p>Drawing on data from satellites and Apollo-era missions, scientists at the US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute have pieced together what they say is the first comprehensive geological map of the Moon.</p> <p>Our 4.5-billion-year-old ...