Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers built monumental mounds at Kaillachuro in Peru without kings, rewriting history of "monumental ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...