This fossil is an ammonite fossil found in the clay pits at Buttenheim located in the state of Bayern (Bavaria), Germany. I think it is located in the Lias lithostratigraphic unit which would date to the Jurassic. Field of view is about 6 mm. The ...

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Back in January of 2022, we were invited for a winter hike within the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, and while we had a fantastic time, there is something more important underfoot that needs to be discussed. And that is the geology! 

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Albistegui Adler is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist whose research examines the political and social impacts of climate change and climate variability....

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We live in a world full of mysteries and wonders... or at least that is the view of most ancient philosophers, such as perhaps Plato in ancient Greece. Atlantis, the legendary island that lay in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is said to have been completely destroyed overnight. To this day, numerous artists and scientists have sought to unravel the mystery of its demise, sometimes suggesting a volcanic eruption.

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Conodont (on right side) with sponge holdfast fossils found in the New Albany Shale. It dates to the Upper Devonian Period. Specimen from the Barbara Conkin collection and was probably found in Clark or Floyd County, Indiana USA. Thanks to Kenny f...

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Plus: Cristobal forms as the Atlantic awakens, with two tropical waves heading toward the Caribbean.

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Flattened ammonoid with rostrum  A thorny evolution: first Triassic ammonoid with a ventral apertural elongated rostrumArnaud Brayard, Emmanuel Fara, Nicolas Olivier, James F. Jenks, Kevin G. Bylund, Daniel A. Stephen, Noreen Kittrick,...

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Historical note: Matt and I were idly going through some of the 276 unfinished draft posts on this blog (don't judge us!) when we stumbled on this -- written on 3 March 2011, but inexplicably not published. Here is is, as written.

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Until recently, the hottest month on record for USA48 (a.k.a. the "lower 48 states" of the USA) was July 1936, with two of the five hottest months from the 1930s (the "dust bowl" era). Not any more. According to data ... Continue reading ??'...

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Lisa Sachs believes Ethiopia and the African Union can make this year's COP more effective by focusing on scalable plans for energy systems, finance reform, food security and nature restoration....

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Conodont fossil found in the New Albany Shale. It dates to the Upper Devonian Period. Specimen from the Barbara Conkin collection and was probably found in Clark or Floyd County, Indiana USA. Thanks to Kenny for the image. Field of view about 3mm....

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Guess who's back? Back again! Sassy's back, tell your colleagues!

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North America, Africa, and Asia all experienced their hottest month on record.

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I went for a run this morning, on a paved trail that runs along a little creek surrounded by a few loblolly pine trees and some red maples, a little bit of urban nature surrounded by houses, streets, and suburbia. It was humid in the early summer mor...

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Climate researchers Marco Tedesco and David Sathuluri reflect on how a single week of heat, smoke and flooding exposed the vulnerability of NYC....

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 Orbiculoidea (d'Orbigny, 1847) brachiopod fossil found in the New Albany Shale. It dates to the Upper Devonian Period. Specimen from the Barbara Conkin collection and was probably found in Clark or Floyd County, Indiana USA. Thanks to Kenny for the...

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Having examined the changing image of Tyrannosaurus in 2023's The Tyrannosaur's Feathers, Adam Smith, Jonathan Emmett and Stieven van der Poorten have returned with a similarly-themed follow-up book - only this time, featuring a whole range...

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A long-infamous record from the 1930s has bit the dust.

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Lamont scientists Terry Plank and Einat Lev worked with partners in Chile to install a new suite of sensors on the summit of Villarrica, bringing real-time monitoring to one of Chile's most active volcanoes....

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The tropical wave-watching marathon begins: African waves can take up to two weeks to reach the continental U.S., but several obstacles can prevent them from making it that far.

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Our ELI for today is 'Weathering- rocks breaking up and breaking down; Matching pictures and descriptions of weathered rocks with the processes of weathering that formed them'.

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On a humid morning in Augsburg, Germany, on August 10, 1893, a ten-foot iron cylinder roared to life for the first time. The engine belonged to Sir Rudolf Diesel, and running through its veins was not the petroleum distillate we associate with his na...

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Some years ago, I was on a project where we needed to search for bat hibernacula and maternal roost trees along a proposed natural gas pipeline corridor in West Virginia. After a slow, plodding climb up a steep hill, I sat down on a log to catch my b...

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The U.S. oil industry got a scare last week. News reports say that the Trump administration may be considering an export ban on crude oil and refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel in order to bring those prices do...

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When Lake Mead's elevation crossed the threshold of 1,040 feet above sea level in the spring of 1937, stretching upstream 100 miles behind Hoover Dam in the deserts of the Arizona Nevada border, it was national news.

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