Geology
Story - June 5, 2013
The discovery of a new species of bird-like dinosaur is giving scientists new insight into the evolution of birds.
The new species is ten million years older than Archaeopteryx, the creature previously considered the oldest bird known to science,...
Story - May 28, 2013
An international team of scientists has embarked on a shipboard expedition to study how the Earth’s crust was pulled apart in an area beneath the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain. The team includes geophysicists from University of...
Story - May 15, 2013
An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancient marine...
Story - May 13, 2013
Earthquakes similar in magnitude to the 2004 Sumatra earthquake could occur in an area beneath the Arabian Sea at the Makran subduction zone, according to recent research published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The research was carried out by...
Story - February 11, 2013
Plumes of hot rock from deep within the Earth are lacing rock beneath the Atlantic Ocean with gold, scientists have discovered.
The team, led by Alex Webber from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, looked at a region...
Story - February 1, 2013
Microscopic ocean algae called coccolithophores are providing clues about the impact of climate change both now and many millions of years ago. The study found that their response to environmental change varies between species, in terms of how...
Story Courosel - January 23, 2013
Scientists based in the UK and New Zealand have described a “new” type of volcanic eruption.
Volcanic eruptions are commonly categorised as either explosive or effusive. But now, in research published this month in Nature...
Story - January 23, 2013
Detecting sexual selection in the fossil record is not impossible, according to scientists writing in Trends in Ecology and Evolution this month, co-authored by Dr Darren Naish of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
The term “...
Story - January 22, 2013
The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight.
Co-authored by Dr Gareth Dyke of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton the paper describes a new...
Story - January 20, 2013
Scientists based in the UK and New Zealand have described a “new” type of volcanic eruption.
Volcanic eruptions are commonly categorised as either explosive or effusive. But now, in research published this month in Nature Geoscience,...
