When you are being trained as a palaeontologist or a geologist, you are told fossils only occur in sedimentary rocks,” ...

Pollen grains are far more than allergens – they are nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments ...

Fine-grained sedimentary rocks are increasingly studied for their complex depositional ... Rocks focused in this volume encompass both marine and continental mudstones and shales, spanning strata from ...

Flowers have been brightening Earth much longer than scientists previously believed—by at least two million years. In a new ...

with emphasis on characteristic properties of different types of sediment and sedimentary rock. Depositional environments of sediments on land and in water are examined: in lakes, rivers and marine ...

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is ...

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

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously ...

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

Known as plasticrusts, the phenomenon was first reported in 2016 by Portuguese scientists who spotted unnaturally colored rocks on the idyllic island of Madeira off the northwest ...

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