The geology, fossils and human stories of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument are part of a common geologic heritage.

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Could a centuries-old map change everything we thought we knew about human history? This mysterious artifact has baffled ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island in 45 hours. Their efforts provide new insights into ...

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels continue to drop.

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...