Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...

Imagine the prehistoric world and the challenges of survival during the age of dinosaurs 200 million years ago. Elon Musk bet big on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. He lost. Eddie Murphy ...