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Emeryville is squeezed between Oakland and Berkeley along the Bay shore. Its much-modified shoreline, which once was mudflats and coastal marsh, has two peninsulas made of landfill. The one has those tall office buildings, the hotel, the marinas and [...]
Some lovely Spisula praecursor (Dall) fossil clams from the Skonun Formation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, captured from the Miocene when this coastline looked very different from today. These fossil bivalves belong to the surf clam [...]
A few years back, I watched a CSEG talk by Lee Hunt (then at Jupiter Resources) called Value thinking: from the classical to the hyper-modern. One case study in particular stuck with me—so much so that I ended up exploring it … Continue reading [...]
Have you ever wondered about all the beautiful building stones you see when you walk round most towns and cities? Try this ELI - 'Building Stones 1– a resource for several Earthlearningidea activities; use a key to identify many different [...]
A new analysis of air quality data from the past 70 years shows a broader, continent-wide trend toward smokier
Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteusImagine cresting a windswept hillside in the fading amber of a Pleistocene sunset. The tall grass parts in slow ripples, stirred by a warm evening breeze—then by something far larger. An Irish Elk steps [...]
Tom Scioli nació en 1977 en Filadelfia. Alrededor de 1994, cuando
comenzó a estudiar arte en la universidad de Pittsburgh, descubrió la obra de Jack Kirby, y esta le influyó tan profundamente que decidió imitar abiertamente
su estilo. Su [...]
La entrada de hoy es corta pero intensa. Os traemos el que podría haber sido el primer corto de dinosaurios de 2026, pero por cuestión de horas debió de ser casi con total seguridad el último de 2025: "Man-Eater" se estrenó el pasado 31 de [...]
Walter Baethgen reflects on his friendship with
Toxodon was a hulking, hippo-sized grazing mammal that once roamed the ancient grasslands, wetlands, and scrub of South America. The creature first entered the scientific spotlight thanks to Charles Darwin, who stumbled upon its [...]