Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Loch Ness Monster: Mystery solved?
Loch Ness monster theories have ranged from elephants to seismicity. Do we finally have the answer? Continue reading
Dinosaur pop quiz
We’re pretty excited about our British Science Festival event next week, ‘Stranger than fiction? Dinosaurs, Monsters and Myths‘. Not only are we hearing from two palaeontologists, Dr Phil Manning and Dr Joanna Wright, about how they reconstruct dinosaurs, but we’ll be joined by Frame Store’s Mike Milne, the graphics brain behind Walking With Dinosaurs since … Continue reading
Curiosity continues to rock on Mars
This was originally posted at: http://blogs.egu.eu/palaeoblog/?p=529 NASA might be having a rain-check on its outreach activities, but that’s not why Curiosity has gone silent the last few days. Every once in a while an event known as the Mars Solar Conjunction places Mars’ orbit directly behind the sun with respect to Earth, and makes communications impossible. … Continue reading
High five-asaurus
A big high five to us and @KEGS_Geography for being our 5,000th twitter follower. To join in, hop along to @geolsoc and say hello. Or, if you’re really keen, why not have a go at writing us a blog post? We’d love to hear from you! Continue reading
Arockalypse now (Ho ho)
Has the world ended yet? If you’re reading this, probably not. We’re pretty confident it won’t in the next few hours, but just in case, we’re making an end of the world/geological play list to see us through. Assuming we make it, wishing all our readers/contributors a very happy Christmas, see you next year! Continue reading
Top 5 less-volcanic lairs for Evil Geologists
Skyfall – the best Bond film ever? We’re not sure, but one thing is certain. You don’t get to be a creditable Bond villain without a proper lair in which to lurk. One year on from our first suggestions, here are a few more to choose from… Continue reading
Happy birthday to us!
Today marks our blog’s one year anniversary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed, commented, shared or visited! As ever, on a momentous occasion such as this, YouTube has not let us down. Continue reading
Top five youtube geology clips – and other ways to spend the Christmas holiday…
As well as eating and drinking, Christmas is traditionally a time for doing very little. In celebration of this, we’ve compiled a few geological ways to pass the time during the holiday. Continue reading
All in a whorl
We knew we were in for it when we chose a picture library image of an unidentified ammonite for the cover of the November issue of Geoscientist. So far reactions have been of two kinds – compliments on the graphic design, and complaints regarding the lack of diagnosis. So, hoping to move on beyond the … Continue reading
The Geological Society Blog 