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February 10, 2020
Yale University said Feb. 10 that its Department of Geology & Geophysics will change its name to the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences to better reflect the...
January 22, 2020
Seismic tomography shows evidence of intense deformation of subducted slabs in the mantle transition zone (~410-660 km depth). Evidence of deformation is particularly clear...
January 16, 2020
Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers. It was all...
January 6, 2020
The award was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting, which was held in Valencia, Spain.
Plankton
December 20, 2019
So many fossils, so little time — to train people to identify them. As scientists grapple with a vast backlog of marine fossils waiting for identification, an international...
Comma Shrimp Fossil Image
December 6, 2019
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest “comma” shrimp, a tiny crustacean shaped like its punctuation namesake. The 90-million-year-old creature fills in a major...
December 2, 2019
Today, the world is warming. But from about 720 to 635 million years ago, temperatures swerved the other way as the planet became encased in ice during the two ice ages known...