Earth & Climate

Did raptors hunt in the pack?

Paleontologists question the image of the prominent predatory dinosaurs. leonello / iStock Her deadly teamwork has made her famous: In films like "Jurassic Park", the...

Climate change: wet self-reinforcement

A river from the Ganges catchment area. Increased rainfall in the tropics could increase global warming by increasing the release of CO2 from the...

Desert microbes turn rocks into water

Electron microscope image of cyanobacteria living in gypsum rocks from the Atacama desert. (Image: Wei Huang) Not a drop of water and yet there is...

Celebrity dino with swimming tail

Artist's impression of the head and tail of Spinosaurus. (Image: Davide Bonadonna) 15 meters long and 20 tons heavy: Spinosaurus is considered the largest of...

Featured picture: Armored mini dragon

What looks like a crocodile in x-ray vision is actually a small lizard from the genus Smaug. Because of their heavy armor, these reptiles...

Can rain awaken volcanoes?

Lava flow during the eruption of the Kīlauea volcano in 2018. (Image: U.S. Geological Survey) The lava bubbled after the record rain: study results suggest...

Featured picture: The last of their kind

The hope of his species rests on this little lynx cub and his peers. Because the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), which is only found...

Fantastic journey of a prehistoric monkey

The fossil monkey teeth were found on the bank of this river. (Image: Erik Seiffert) Although there are many birds that cross entire oceans on...

Bizarre habitat in the marine underworld

To detect microbes in the samples, the researchers made thin sections of the deep rock. (Image: Caitlin Devor, University of Tokyo, CC BY 4.0,...

A rainforest in Antarctica

This is what the Antarctic forest could have looked like 90 million years ago. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute) Today Antarctica is the most hostile and...

Feathered Raptor of the End Times discovered

Artist's impression of Dineobellator. (Photo: Sergey Krasovskiy) It had feathers, an iron grip and a flexible tail for balance in chases: fossil hunters discovered a...

When the North Atlantic pump stutters

The North Atlantic circulation current drives the warm North Atlantic current and forms cold deep water (NADW) (Image: Yair Rosenthal / Rutgers University New...

Evolution: the riddle of body sizes

Living environment in the Geiseltal 47 million years ago: Propalaeotherium (left) and Tapir Lophiodon (center) (image: Marton Szabo) The ancestors of today's horses have changed...

Featured picture: A virus clears the air

The novel corona virus SARS-Cov-2 has been paralyzing large parts of the world for weeks. But the pandemic also has positive effects - at...

Oldest fossil of a bilaterally symmetrical animal

This is how the ancestor of Bilateria might have looked. (Image: Sohail Wasif / University of California Riverside) What did the ancestor of all bilateria...

How plants shape mountain formation

In this Mediterranean climate zone in the mountains of central Chile, vegetation and precipitation lead to comparatively heavily weathered soil profiles. (Image: Todd Ehlers) They...

Hidden influx of nutrients in the Arctic

Tundra in Alaska. (Photo: Dieter Meyerl / iSTock) The frozen soil of the arctic permafrost areas is surprisingly permeable. Because groundwater also collects under these...

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