The second part of The Story of Earth, Cooling a molten world, is now live

Read here: open.substack.com/pub/kanecoxo...

#geoscience #earthscience #geology #science #planetaryscience

So we're slightly late to the party given that the big news dropped a month ago, but here's a full hour of the #TerribleLizards #Podcast where @iszi.com and I talk about #Nanotyrannus and what it all means for T. rex and tyrannosaur research going forwards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus

Ice shell thinning on small icy satellites in the outer Solar System can cause subsurface oceans to boil, according to a study in Nature Astronomy. This process may help to explain surface features and geological activity on moons such as Saturn’s Mimas and Enceladus. go.nature.com/3JVCJ2p 🔭 🧪

On 24 November 1859, ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ by Charles Darwin was published, introducing the idea that species evolve through natural selection. It reshaped biology, palaeontology, and our understanding of Earth’s deep history.

Thanks ol’ Charlie boy! 💚👏

Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event, aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a Science study of an Early Triassic-age fossil site in the Arctic.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4r0k0U1

New paper out today assesses the potential for in-situ CO₂ mineralisation in UK onshore igneous rocks. The findings suggest a far larger storage capacity than previously thought, with major implications for decarbonisation planning.

🔗 www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

#geology #climate

I wrote a piece of Substack on the rising hostility toward scientific expertise and evidence. If this interests you, the full article is below ⬇️

#science #politics #evidence

A new study by Sereno et al. (2025), published in #Science, reveals astonishing details from two “mummified” #Edmontosaurus #fossils found in Wyoming, including fleshy midline crests, tail spikes, and incredibly, hoof-like toes!

You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,

refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field

Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?

Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Seems sensible to me… Earth scientists are planetary scientists after all! 🤷🏻‍♂️🌍

Imagine compressing Earth’s 4.6 billion year history into a single day. Humans appear in the final second, and in that instant, we alter the atmosphere more than all biogeochemical processes did for millions of years.

#Geology #Climate #DeepTime #EarthScience

I write evidence-based essays on #geology, #palaeontology, and sometimes a bit of interdisciplinary thinking across #psychology and the #EarthSciences over at kanecoxon.substack.com 🌍📚

Do have a look if you’re interested in our planet’s 4.6 billion year journey from stardust to the #Anthropocene.

Our paper on the geochemistry of interdune bodies in Gale crater was published yesterday.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Earth has a story 4.6 billion years long. I’m exploring it through a 10-part Substack series tracing how our planet formed, evolved and gave rise to life.
🌍 Part one is out now: kanecoxon.substack.com/p/the-story-of-earth-1

#Science #Geology #DeepTime #Earth