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 ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations ...

Analysis of a volcanic ash tuff layer, only a few millimeters thick and discovered during excavations in 2024, revealed that ...

A geology professor and his student at Rogers State University (RSU) made a remarkable discovery just before spring break. Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ...

The discovery and dating of the Jebel Irhoud fossils are used to explain why Morocco holds the oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Mining history, early excavation methods, burnt tools dated in 2017, ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date of the Yunxian site in Central China's Hubei Province. The origin of three ...