Learn about the recent eruption of Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia that was previously dormant for nearly 12,000 years.

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia erupted explosively on Sunday, November 23, 2025, for the first time in approximately ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. Complete plant fossils are seldom found as a single ...

Timeline of atmospheric CO₂ evolution, faunal turnover, and topographic uplift during the Miocene, providing a contextual framework for interpreting ecological and climate model results. (A) ...

In 2017, farmer Nigel McGraths stumbled on something remarkable: He was removing rocks from a field to make ready for tilling when he came across what appeared to be a leaf embedded in a rock. The ...