A prehistoric volcano in a horizontal position found in the mountain range of the Italian Alps has been described as a unique geological case in the world.
An underwater volcano has erupted this week in the vicinity of the Tonga archipelago, between Tahiti and Australia, forming spectacular clouds of smoke, steam and ash several thousand meters high over the Pacific Ocean.
The eruption of the Tambora volcano, in Indonesia, made the summer of 1816 the coldest in the Iberian Peninsula, where temperatures did not exceed 15ºC.
American geologists have found several hundred tracks of Jurassic reptiles in a territory that 190 million years ago was occupied by a sandy oasis. And they have dubbed it the "dance floor of the dinosaurs."
130 million years ago the Sierra de la Demanda was inhabited by dinosaurs such as the rebaquisáurido, a 12-meter herbivore, or the armored reptile Polacanthus, endowed with enormous defensive spines. But what was the environment like the large reptiles lived in?
Can you imagine what our planet would look like stripped of all plants, soils, water, and man-made structures? OneGeology, the largest global geological map in history, shows us.
Long before the first living being appeared on the face of the Earth, it was already full of diamonds. New German research has just shown that these carbon-made gemstones can create thin layers of water on their surface.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
