A fascinating new study has shaken up our understanding of Earth’s oceans. It reveals that around 15 million years ago, something remarkable happened beneath the surface of the planet: the Earth ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4.5 billion years ago. The results, derived from a new computer model, ...

The new work suggests Earth's cratons first started emerging up to 3.3 billion years ago, roughly three-quarters of a billion years earlier that most prior models predicted.

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

Inspired by a remarkable discovery in Portugal, this is the story of Lusotitan, a colossal, long-necked dinosaur — one of the largest ever to walk the Earth — 150 million years ago, as it ...

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

You Can Watch 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth's Tectonic Plates Shifting In This 1-Minute Video Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Earth was like another world. Tom Hale ...

The Earth of 300 million years ago was vastly different than the Earth of today. For one, oxygen in the atmosphere was 40% to 50% higher than it is today.

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.

This is a main conclusion of a new study that analyses the body profiles of organisms -- symmetry, segmented bodies, exoskeletons, etc. -- from around 545 million years ago by analyzing trace ...

As Earth’s magnetic field has risen, ... can use indirect clues 2 to reconstruct oxygen levels as far back as the Cambrian period, which began around 540 million years ago.