Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a remote stretch of northern Quebec, scientists have uncovered pieces of Earth's crust that are more than 4 billion years old.

Researchers say they might have discovered the oldest rocks on Earth. The rocks in question are a belt of swirly, stripe-covered rocks found in the northeastern reaches of Canada. These rocks appear ...

Canada is the land of hockey, maple syrup, and a tendency to end every sentence with the word "eh" – it's also home to the oldest rocks on Earth. A new study, published in Science, confirmed that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada is home to the oldest rocks on Earth (Jonathan O'Neil) Earth formed about ...

Have you ever stood on a piece of Earth, whether at an impressive national park like the Grand Canyon (the most-visited natural wonder in the world) or even in your own backyard, and wondered just how ...