Large flat surfaces carved by ancient rivers deep beneath East Antarctica are influencing how ice flows across the continent ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Researchers have found a link between two geological events in iconic locations of the U.S. Southwest that scientists ...

In an incredible twist of fate, a retired chicken farmer unearthed a 240-million-year-old amphibian fossil in a pile of rocks ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years ...

The oldest-known hominin track sites found in southwest Europe provide clues to the hunting patterns of Neanderthals. Experts believe that along with eating plenty of plants, the ancient population ...

The team was also able to use Pando’s genetic data to estimate its age using a theoretical model that plots evolutionary lineage, revealing an estimate of 16,000 to 80,000 years. It places Pando among ...