Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

In most Ancient Greek philosophical circles, the theory of a spherical earth was accepted by around the 5th century BC, and ...

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing traces of a ...

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this ...