The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.
The Hidden Chapter Finally Gets a Name A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously ...
A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...
This shift in Earth’s tectonic tempo had profound implications above ground. With less volcanic carbon dioxide heating the ...
The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg.
A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Credit: E. Cottrell, ...
The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...
Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, ...
Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...
A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Analyzing rocks in thin ...