Geo News 2018
Links to Some Recent Interesting News about Rocks & Fossils
Dinosaur footprints found in Skye (April 3rd, '18)
- Telegraph: Skye dinosaur finds - Daily Telegraph news article
- GeolSoc blog: giant dinosaur footprints - Geol. Soc. of London blog
Decade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Dinosaur emergence (March 29th, '18)
- Geology Page: dinosaur emergence - Geology Page news article
Early birds too hefty to incubate their eggs? (March 22nd, '18)
- Nature News: early birds too hefty - Nature News article
Free Open Learning study course on Life in the Palaeozoic (March '18)
- Open Learning: Palaeozoic life - Open Learning study course (free)
Insect/spider/crustacean ancestor had simple brain but complex eyes (March 9th '18)
- Geology Page: insect ancestor eyes - Geology Page news article
Photosynthesis originated 1bn years earlier than we thought (March 6th '19)
- Geology Page: earlier photosynthesis - Geology Page news article
127 million year old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian evolution (March 5th '18)
- Geology Page: 127m years old baby bird - Geology Page news article
Interactive globe showing earth through geological time (February '18)
- Dinosaur Pics: interactive globe - watch earth through the ages
Did ocean tides drive ancient fish to walk? (February '18)
- Nature News: driving fish to walk - Nature News article
Dinosaur extinction one-two punch (February '18)
- Geology Page: dinosaur one-two = Geology page news article
Oldest compound eye (February '18)
- Edinburgh Uni: oldest compound eye - Edinburgh University press release
- Geology Page: oldest compound eyes - Geology page news article
UK quake (17th February '18)
- BGS: Quake summary - BGS summary info
- BGS: Recent UK quakes - BGS round-up
- BGS: Live seismic data - BGS Swindon seismograph record
- BBC News: UK quake 17/2/18 - BBC News report
Dinosaurs 'too successful for their own good' (6th February '18)
- Geology Page: Dinosaur extinction cause - Geology Page news article
Erasing a billion years of geologic time across the globe (1st February '18)
- EOS: The Great Unconformity - EOS news article
2 billion year-old natural nuclear reactor (26th January '18)
- Scientific American: African uranium - Scientific American news article
New analyses undermine a popular theory about an intense asteroid storm 4 billion years ago (24th January '18)
- Nature News: late heavy bombardment - Nature news article
Insects took off when they evolved wings (23rd January '18)
- Stanford: Insects evolved wings - Stanford Uni news article
508 MA bristle worm from Burgess Shale wriggles into evolutionary history (22nd January '18)
- Physics org: Burgess shale bristle worm - Physics org news article
Do Large (Magnitude ≥8) Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calendar Year or Lunar Cycle? (17th January '18)
- Seismological Research Letters: abstract - Seismological Research Letters abstract (award for shortest ever abstract?)
Buckingham Palace built with mineralised microbes (18th January '18)
- ANU: Buckingham Palace - Australian National University news article
Stone contains compounds not found in solar system (10th January '18)
- Pop Mechanics Hypatia stone - Popular Mechanics news article
Lewisian Gneiss (how it moved around the globe over geological time) (9th January '18)
- BBC R3 Lewisian Gneiss - BBC Radio iPlayer programme [15 mins]
Ocean bottom sinking under weight of melting glaciers (8th January '18)
- Science Alert Ocean bottom sinking = Science Alert news article