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A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning, sending boulders tumbling onto rural roadways outside San Diego and elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park scrambling to encircle their young. Officials reported no injuries or major damage.

✨Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! The New York Times Fantastic piece by JackTamisiea on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from Will Ratcliff! Read the feature ✨🔗 nytimes.com/2025/03/31/sci…

The RMS Titanic sank beneath the cold Atlantic waters #OTD in 1912.  The Titanic Memorial - designed by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and now standing along the Washington Channel - is a tribute to the more than 1,500 passengers who perished.

I am so excited that the last chapter of my dissertation is published. In it, we investigate why crocodylomorphs seem to be so good at making it through mass extinctions but also why their responses to these events appear to differ. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…

A one-of-a-kind personality and Hall of Fame player. Mongo will never be forgotten. 💙

We've got a cool bronze statue to amplify for today's "Heavy Metal" theme of #NationalParkWeek. Designed by sculptor Charles Henry Niehaus, the John Paul Jones Memorial is dedicated to the naval hero of the American Revolution, not the bassist of Led Zeppelin.

In a new study, Yuanzheng Wen and a research team have detailed interactions between magnetic field lines of the sun and Mars that may help explain how Mars turned from a warm, hospitable planet into a dry, cold, and hostile environment. physics.uiowa.edu/news/2025/04/i…

🌳 Happy Arbor Day! 🌲 From the towering redwoods in the West to the cypress swamps in the Southeast, we are proud to care for our forests and protect these inspiring places for future generations. Photo by Sam Jezak

I guess this was the year!

The painting "Gibbons at play" which was painted by Xuande Emperor it dates back to 1427, Ming dynasty.

It's Fossil Friday! In this archival image, Museum preparators work on a trio of Tyrannosaur skulls. With 4-ft- (1.2-m-) long jaws & massive teeth, T. rex was one of the largest carnivores of all time. It could bite with ~7,800 lbs of force (34,500 N)—the weight of 3 cars!

Introducing Mosura fentoni, a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale. Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… This #fossil species has 3 eyes, spiny claws, wing-shaped swimming flaps, and a unique abdomen-like body region.

It's Fossil Friday! What's the tallest freestanding dinosaur mount in the world? The Museum's Barosaurus & Allosaurus in the rotunda, which stands 50 ft (15 m) tall. How does it defy gravity? The Barosaurus is constructed using casts from real fossil bones in our collection.

Happy #Fossilfriday from the English-themed pub in downtown DC where you can polish off a pint under the watchful eye of a mosasaur

Kelp forests on the coast of Maine are in decline owing to rapid ocean warming and are being replaced by turf algae, which alter the ecosystem’s chemistry, hindering the recovery of kelp forests. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/43prS6n