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What do interdisciplinarity and Darwin's law have to do with each other? In this blog, dr. Amir Raoof discusses interdisciplinarity in the context of selection and mutation in species survival.

New study by UU and NESSC researchers underlines important role of surface region of the ocean in dissolving calcium carbonates

Around 200 million years in the future Somalia, Madagascar and India will collide with each other, thereby creating the Somalaya Mountains.

Mantle plumes might explain how a mosaic of tectonic plates was once formed.

The megalake fauna, which included dwarf whales and dolphins, evolved and thrived initially but were later nearly obliterated

Paleontologists revised the description a Patagosaurus fossil that was discovered in the 1970s. What were they able to research now, that wasn't possible before?

A new study verifies the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus—a very successful early human who roamed the world for nearly 2 million years.

Seismologist Arwen Deuss receives the Athena Award, an award from NWO for remarkable female researchers who are role models for others.

Researchers from the Netherlands have created a new approach to envision how dinosaurs walked.

The deep Atlantic Ocean used to have a temperature of about 20 degrees Celsius, according to a study by Martin Ziegler.

Extreme adaptability to new diets likely has been a key factor in the longevity of the group

Can collisions of tectonic plates set off a global chain reaction? They can, says a study by Douwe van Hinsbergen and his team.

Though a lack of iron is a factor limiting algal growth in the oceans, more dissolved iron in the ocean East of Greenland due to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet does not lead to more algae there.

Nadine Smit, researcher at the Royal NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, has discovered new chemical tracers to investigate the presence of terrestrial bacteria that consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane.

Planetoid (563318) = 2016 CD144 will henceforth be known as (563318) ten Kate, after planet scientist and astrobiologist Inge Loes ten Kate.

An international team of palaeontologists sectioned the first skeletons of vertebrates to reveal their life cycle and the positions these marine animals occupied in the Earth’s earliest foodwebs.

A new method has enabled us to determine the global sea level up to 540 million years ago.

To recognize and promote excellence in student research as well as awareness in our field, the focus area Migration and Societal Change awards the best master’s thesis.

Jack Middelburg (dept. of Earth Sciences) has been elected as an American Geophysical Union Fellow

Inge Loes ten Kate appointed as Professor by special appointment for Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology