Hidden for 95 million years beneath layers of sediment, the remarkablywell-preserved skull of an ancient legged snake species ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is loca ...

Mars’ Jezero Crater holds signs of ancient water and strange mineral reactions, some linked with organic compounds. With ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

Given that the gray sandstone and siliclastic sediment was deposited over a long, long time, it was evidence that right at the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs when their numbers and diversity ...

Clues to our planet’s dramatic past are in the layers of rocks we might overlook. A great guide shows why they deserve our ...

The Hadean Eon’s chaos mirrors ancient Greek myths of Titans and creation in which strife, chaos, and order shaped the dawn ...

A far riskier idea for influencing clouds to combat global warming is to try to brighten low clouds over oceans by spraying ...

Research from the University of Gottingen reveals that trace amounts of precious metals, including gold and ruthenium, are transported from Earth's co ...

Scientists date dinosaur eggs that had laid buried in rock for millions of years for the first time, using new, ‘atomic clock ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...