But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Armed with advanced technology, decades of expertise, and insights from an NSF-funded study, a multi-institution team of ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

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 ...

Geologists studying the Cambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon have uncovered exciting new insights that challenge traditional ...

New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.

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 ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...