I’ve had a surprising number of comments telling me the Earth is flat. 50. 50 comments telling me the earth is Flat. And ...

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Spring might be the rainy season in most places on Earth today, but millions of years ago every season was a rainy season - every day, actually. Experts say that around 232 million years ago there was ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

In a new paper published in Nature today, colleagues and I reveal secrets of Earth’s crust 4.5 billion years ago. In the process ... estimates ranging from 800 million to 4.5 billion years.

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

CHICAGO — As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left ...

The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the largest biogeographic barriers on Earth, limiting the dispersal ... been in place since at least 11 million years ago. But Professor Michael Petraglia ...