Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

This documentary explores the origins of prehistoric sharks and the dramatic evolutionary path that shaped their early dominance. It traces how these marine predators emerged long before dinosaurs and ...

The concept of the sporting documentary has taken a beating in the past few years. Browse through whichever streaming ...

A drawing of an orange, cloud-covered planet against a black background During the Archean Eon, 4-2.5 billion years ago, Earth likely looked very different than it does today. Its hazy skies may have ...

Scientists believe they’ve found evidence that life on Earth is over a billion years older than anyone believed was realistic. New research used machine learning to scan ancient meteorites and fossils ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an ...

MSU researcher Katie Maloney contributed samples of rare, exceptionally well-preserved seaweed fossils (e.g., macroscopic algae) from Yukon Territory, Canada. These fossils are almost one-billion ...

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous records go back about 800,000 years. But in a region called the Allan Hills, a ...