Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

An international group of geologists and paleontologists has developed a new method to accurately determine the age of rocks ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess.

Dinosaurs arrived hot on the tails of their more ancient relatives, reptiles called dinosauromorphs, a new study shows. New dating of a dinosauromorph fossil layer in a geologic formation in Argentina ...

Satellite image of Earth displayed the North American continent (top) and the South American continent (bottom). (Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — After following a trail of crumbs left behind in ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare (they can be unearthed all over the world) but they’re still thrilling to ...

Lara Sciscio receives funding from DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (CoE in Palaeosciences). Covering two thirds of South Africa the Karoo Basin, visually, is a beautiful space. When ...