Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

We show how this "cosmic clock" uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought. New research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has ...

A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made ...

Sediment records from the Andes suggest tropical land where millions live could heat up faster than expected as greenhouse ...

A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

Ancient volcanic rocks reveal how two giant hot regions beneath Africa and the Pacific have shaped Earth's magnetic shield.