Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex ...

Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

A Neanderthal man is believed to have painted a nose on a pebble using red pigment more than 43,000 years ago.

As far as art goes, it's not going to win any awards. But this large pebble might be the earliest known representation of a face, experts say.

These images were obtained at the SEM Laboratory of UFPA with ... due to the easy transportation of suspended clay sediments into the lake. The heavy mineral assemblage was formed by stable to ...

Image credit ... scientists noticed a remarkable change in the type of sediments they were retrieving: a pale looking carbonate mud very sharply transitioned into a dark grey pile of fine silt and ...

Hidden in the heart of Gainesville lies a geological marvel that defies everything you thought you knew about Florida’s landscape – Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park, where a massive sinkhole ...

Deep sea sediments contain treasure troves of information about marine ecosystems and past climate scenarios, yet remain ...