Clear out your phone's memory to make room for tons of wildlife photos at this serene California state park, complete with ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why ...

Breakthrough discovery of 123-million-year-old pollen grains in Portugal pushes back flowering plant evolution by 2 million ...

For example, the cerium anomaly, measured in marine sedimentary rocks, has been widely applied as a paleoredox indicator. Marine carbonates are the main substrate used to reconstruct REY signal in ...

Answers Embedded in Rock To step back in time, the research team analyzed sedimentary rock cores collected from several sites across South Africa. These locations were carefully selected because ...

A "very odd" sea creature fossil from Vancouver Island has been officially identified as a new species, Traskasaura sandrae.

While scientists have long studied currents of large eddies, the smaller ones -- called submesoscale eddies -- are notoriously difficult to detect. These currents, which range from several kilometers ...

Quantifying carbon export to the deep ocean is critical for understanding changes in Earth’s climate. Measurements in the ...

Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden ...

The sample analysis at Mars instrument evolved gas analyzer (SAM-EGA) has detected evolved water, H-2, SO2, H2S, NO, CO2, CO, O-2, and HCl from two eolian sediments and nine sedimentary rocks from ...

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra08193, Spain ...