The powerful magnitude-8.6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11, 2012, was a seismic standout for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was larger than scientists thought an earthquake of its type — an intraplate strike-slip quake — could ever be. Now, as Caltech researchers report on their findings from the […]

Tyrannosaurus rex was still making a nice living, paleontologists report, but some other dinosaurs declined in numbers long before the asteroid hit 65.5 million years ago . In the journal Nature Communications, a team led by Stephen Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, look at seven major dinosaur sub-groups, ranging from T. […]