Geologists have solved the mystery of the disappearance from the geological record, millions of years ago, of one of North ...

Reverse-engineering the billion-year-old enzyme nitrogenase clued researchers into how life originally formed on Earth — and ...

Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, ...

Record volcanic eruptions in the Andes could explain the mysterious death of dozens of whales about 5 to 8 million years ago, ...

Hamersley has supplied iron ore to global industry for decades. Geologists long assumed its richest formations dated back roughly 2.2 billion years. Recent uranium-lead isotopic analysis overturned ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-water corals in the Galapagos region vanished for more than 1,000 years before ...

A new study led by University of Arizona researchers has uncovered how massive volcanic eruptions in the Andes Mountains ...

A massive, bus-sized “terror croc” that once preyed on dinosaurs has been brought back to life in stunning detail with the ...

A single alien world can be misleading. A strange gas in an atmosphere might look promising, then turn out to come from ...

In 2010, construction workers on the Panamerican Highway traversing Chile's Atacama Desert stumbled upon a nearly perfectly preserved fossilized whale ...

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

Dr. David Schwimmer, a leading authority on the massive North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a geology professor at Columbus State ...