The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday.

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Pangaea looked nothing like you remember from school - this attempt to rebuild it might change how you see the world ...

In this video, we take you on a journey to the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when Earth looked vastly different from today. Massive ice sheets stretched across North America, Europe, and Asia. Glaciers ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past half-billion years of Earth's history.

New research suggests that the geological site harbors the oldest known surviving fragments of Earth’s crust, dating back to 4.16 billion years ago.

By analyzing ancient trace fossils, researchers uncovered evidence of complex, mobile organisms thriving 545 million years ago, well before the traditionally accepted timeline.