A grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from a fossil bed in China gave paleontologists a huge surprise. Rather than a dinosaur embryo or sediment, it was filled with sparkling crystals of calcite lining the ...

Researchers from the University of Göttingen have investigated an intriguing geological phenomenon in Uruguay. These scientists are trying to uncover the mysteries behind the formation of amethyst ...

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Amethyst geodes were introduced to Minecraft in the 1.17 update and quickly became one of the best things to find while mining. They can't be located with a command, so players who want to find one ...

From the spiky teeth of a geode containing barite and dogtooth calcite crystals, the rich browns and golds of smoky quartz and goethite needles on calcite, and the coral-like branches of plumose ...