The chemical record of a snail shell is allowing scientists to reconstruct a record of past storms from the recent—and maybe distant—past.

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - The Anthropocene is widely used without fixed definition. This Perspective argues for its base to be defined in 1952 by a sharp plutonium upturn coinciding...

Arthropods, with harder bodies and better cognition than some other candidates, seem to be the most likely culprit.

Reconstructions of climate over the past millennium provide context for disentangling anthropogenic forcing from natural multidecadal variability. However, the strength of the east-west tropical Pacif...

The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases

Despite an extensive history of study, quantitative constraints on the thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex remain limited. Here, we derive a thermodynamically based determination of T. rex body temp...

A combination of palaeoclimate proxies and simulations shows that a common mechanism controls El Niño variation in cold and warm states, which supports expectations of more extreme El Niño occurr...

Members of the Globigerinoides ruber complex were amongst the earliest foraminifera taxa defined by d'Orbigny in the early 19thcentury. Yet, due their morphological similarity, differentiated only by ...

Experts said the drop in numbers is ‘disappointing’

Chemicals in the fossils of the hyena’s prey help palaeontologists reconstruct the mosaic landscape it inhabited.

Tropical Atlantic nitrogen isotope records show that N₂ fixation was reduced during the warm late Pliocene due to decreased global water column denitrification. It increased as Earth cooled into the P...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.