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Sunset on Putorana Plateau Siberia

What caused the Great Dying?

New research helps answer one of the most asked questions in geoscience: what caused the Earth’s biggest mass extinction?

Ancient CO2 burps revealed

The fossilised remains of ancient deep-sea corals may provide new insights into the effect the ocean has on rising CO2 levels.

New stone circle discovered

A team of archaeologists are celebrating the discovery of a major new prehistoric monument only a short distance away from Stonehenge. 

Early signs of life

New research helps answer one of the most asked questions in geoscience: when did Earth start to become habitable to complex life?

Greenland

Earth’s hidden past unearthed

New international research led by St Andrews presents a novel way to understand the structure and formation of our oldest continents.

Dr Claire Cousins, Dr Chandrike Kaul and Professor Anne Magurran

£600k research funding award

Three researchers from the University of St Andrews have been awarded research funding totalling over £620,000 from the Leverhulme Trust.

Hidden stone circle in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Stone circles secret

The Calanais Virtual Reconstruction Project has uncovered a potential link between ancient stone circles and the forces of nature.