Earth & Climate

Vikings: Expelled from Greenland by rising tides?

The Vikings once built houses similar to this one in Greenland. (Image: ManuelVelasco / iStock) A good thousand years ago, the Vikings reached Greenland and...

Are there viruses on Mars?

It certainly does not seem inconceivable, researchers have to conclude after research in the Martian Atacama desert. Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest...

Dino embryo in bird-like attitude

Artist's impression of "Baby Yingliang" in its egg. (Image: LIDA XING) He is called "Baby Yingliang": paleontologists report on a dinosaur embryo preserved in...

Giant arthropod fossil

This is what possibly the largest arthropod of all time could have looked like. (Image: Neil Davies) It was around 2.60 meters long, weighed...

Himalayan glaciers are melting at lightning speed

And that could lead to water shortages for millions of people in Asia. The Himalayas are also referred to as the 'third pole' of the...

Dinosaur jaws got stronger

Plant and carnivorous dinosaurs from the theropod group. (Image: Gabriel Ugueto) A study shows that dinosaurs from the theropod group developed increasingly stable jaws...

Fierce fires in Brazilian wetland killed nearly 17 million vertebrates

While we were weighed down by the corona crisis, an unprecedented amount of animals, including birds, primates and jaguars, died in the largest tropical...

Photo worth seeing: A sharp look into the plant

(Image: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center) This detailed 3D representation of a developing soy flower was created using a new X-ray microscopy method. It...

How Neanderthals changed their environment

Excavations in Neumark-Nord near Halle. (Photo: Wil Roebroeks / University of Leiden) Around 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals may have had an impact on their...

How well-designed solar parks can boost biodiversity

On the road to renewable energy, solar parks may provide another important benefit: for nature. In order to achieve the objectives of the Paris Climate...

Long bird tongue even in dinosaur times

Left: Depiction of the fossil head of the Cretaceous bird with the hyoid bone marked in color. Right: Artist's impression of the animal,...

New Arctic heat record: 38 degrees Celsius!

It is a temperature more suited to the Mediterranean area, but was actually measured in June 2020 in Verkhoyansk – a Russian city near...

Accumulation of mouth caps lying around threatens to become a serious environmental problem

“If governments require the use of face masks, they must also provide sufficient information about cleaning them up.” That's what researcher Keiron Roberts says in...

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