The fall in jawless vertebrates coincides with the rise of jawed vertebrates following the two pulses of the Late Ordovician ...

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

The United States has a habit of showcasing its geology. Long before cities and highways showed up, forces beneath the ...

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 ...

RUBONDO Island National Park is a hidden gem in Tanzania, located on an island in Lake Victoria. It is a haven for wildlife ...

Today in Illinois, we have very few native conifers; the fact that these cones can only be found where humans have planted ...

Construction work has officially begun on the new office building of the Liberia Geological Survey (LGS), following the symbolic laying of the first brick by the Minister of Mines and Energy, R.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

"If you want to see some needle ice, but don’t want to visit the tundra, look before the ground has frozen or during a cold ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

Earthquake swarms are clusters of small quakes caused by complex fault systems and underground stress, and scientists say ...

In her debut, Portland-based science writer Laura Poppick elegantly makes the case that Earth's ancient geological history is ...