For decades, scientists have puzzled over a significant gap in the fossil record of Earth's earliest animals, with genetic evidence suggesting their rise more than 650 million years ago but no ...

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 ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

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 ...

The climate warmed up almost as quickly 56 million years ago as it is doing now. When a huge amount of CO 2 entered the atmosphere in a short period of time, it led to large-scale forest fires and ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...

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 ...