A fascinating new study has shaken up our understanding of Earth’s oceans. It reveals that around 15 million years ago, ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Boldly etched into the flow of solidifying lava across Earth, the Matuyama-Brunhes event is used by geologists as a marker of ...

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.