What sets it apart from its cousins in the Cambrian Period (485 to 541 million ... explosion as a fleeting moment in Earth’s history. It demonstrates that at least some of the bizarre arthropods that ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

T he fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered ...

New research from the University of Colorado Boulder provides evidence supporting the 'Snowball Earth' theory. Geologists ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Glaciers have survived through a delicate balance of gain and loss. A new study shows just how much the scale has tipped.

It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

Snowball Earth theory gets a boost from Colorado rock findings Tava sandstone formation provides key evidence for global ice ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...