Dinosaur footprints reveal secrets from a distant past. The discovery of identical tracks on two continents now separated by ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a 120-million-year-old section of Earth’s crust in Borneo that had long been considered ...

In a geologic instant—over the last few centuries, merely—the unfathomably long and patient work of Earth is being undone.

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, scientists have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind.

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

About 252 million years ago, extreme El Niño ocean warming events were a major driver of the largest mass extinction in our ...

Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds, from the smallest of wrens to the mightiest of moa. The ancestors of some species ...

This cooling event occurred during the late Ordovician period, around 445–443 million years ago, and is characterized by a significant global glaciation that led to widespread ice sheets, especially ...

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Scutigeromorpha are an ancient group of centipedes that have existed for over 400 million years. Historical events such as ...