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Today - 27 September 2025 - is exactly 200 years since the first steam-powered passenger hashtagtrain went between Stockton and Darlington. Steam was the power source, but the energy source was coal hashtagand the train industry that quickly [...]
Few dinosaurs are as instantly recognizable as Stegosaurus, with its double row of towering bony plates and spiked tail. This impressive herbivore, whose name means “roofed lizard,” roamed western North America about 155–150 million [...]
As part of this year’s Climate Week NYC, the event included conversations between climate experts, interdisciplinary panels of researchers, and student presentations on the complex issues and possible solutions for the climate
This image is of a Cyperus sp. plant fossil. The plant existed in the Miocene Epoch. Fossil was discovered in the village of Prata of the Grosseto province in Italy.Picture taken at Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia Florence Italy (Università [...]
Charles 'Chip' Kidd es un escritor, editor y diseñador gráfico nacido en 1964 en Reading (Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos), conocido por sus diseños de cubiertas de libros. A día de hoy es el diseñador de libros más famoso e influyente del [...]
Acaba de ser publicado, en la revista Geological Magazine, un trabajo en el que participa el Grupo de Biología Evolutiva de la UNED titulado: “Depositional model of the Eocene El Kohol Formation (Central Saharan Atlas, Algeria): integration of [...]
Ichthyosaur Vertebrae found by Lewis Winchester-EllisThis well-preserved partial ichthyosaur was found in the Blue Lias shales by Lewis Winchester-Ellis. The vertebrae you see in the image here are from the tail section of this marine [...]
For this post, I found myself considering the value and significance of names. Perhaps inevitably, I turned to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet asks "What's in a name?" She, in love with Romeo, renounces the family feud that [...]
Narwhals are certainly among the strangest and most immediately recognizable of all marine mammals, owing to their fantastic tusk. Narwhals grow to about 20 feet (~6-7 meters), are white and brown and frequently spotted, and inhabit the Atlantic [...]
The latest batch of readings and a video for you readers.1) How the death of the dinosaurs reengineered Earth. Here is an interesting linkage between dinosaurs, sedimentary rock type distribution and river geometry. Fluvial sedimentary environments [...]