The breakup of Earth’s supercontinent split seas and lands apart, creating new ecosystems. These shifts opened the door to the Jurassic ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

We each are shaped by the things around us, our parents, education and the journeys we take. And it is geology that perhaps has shaped me the most, growing up in a place with rocks the size of ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

Scientists tracking Earth’s water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Researchers worked out the ocean's size by finding how high the water level got in the Solar System’s largest canyon system.

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.