Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

Around 230 million years ago, Earth entered a strange and turbulent period now known as the Carnian Pluvial Event. Geological evidence suggests global rainfall increased dramatically for nearly two ...

When the asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, the immediate destruction was only the beginning. Firestorms, global ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known impressions of reptile skin from the Thuringian Forest in central ...

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

A 3-year-old gray wolf may be roaming in Los Angeles County in search of a mate -- a major milestone for a species that was ...

The United States added 130,000 jobs to start the year while the end of 2025 job gains were revised downward, Wednesday's ...

February holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. See what's happening in the skies over North Texas this ...

In a recent paper published in Geology, scientists propose that certain kinds of wrinkle structures in sedimentary rock are the remnants of ancient microbial communites, similar to those found in deep ...