A newly identified dinosaur fossil from Brazil is offering fresh clues about how ancient animals once moved across continents ...

Now imagine opening it and finding that more than a billion years of pages are missing. That mystery is called the Great Unconformity. A ...

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If you look back through the billions of years of Earth’s history, you realize that the ground beneath you is anything but stable. Our planet has been a molten ball of fire, a frozen wasteland, and a ...

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first plants began spreading across Earth’s land. This major turning point helped ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...