Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that a newly identified niobium-rich deposit in central Australia formed during the early breakup of an ancient supercontinent.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

Mountain building occurred all around the Yellowstone region and highlights a tortured geological history of uplift and volcanism. The Gallatin Range, just northeast of Yellowstone Caldera, is an ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos.

the universe works without the aid of gods (or God), that religious fear (dreading hell) is damaging to human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that matter is ...

Dating back 2 billion years, the Aravalli Range is India's oldest mountain system, shaping the geology and climate from ...

In a new wrinkle, some dam opponents have noted that legally protected California condors have been flying not far from the reservoir site.

We all know the San Andreas Fault is out there. Californians first learn about the looming underground threat during ...