A study by the UAB and the University of A Coruña has succeeded in demonstrating the existence of Roman-era alluvial gold ...
They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...
Explore towering red sandstone formations, ancient geological layers, and peaceful desert hikes at Red Rock Canyon State Park ...
The first plesiosaur fossil found in Algeria provides new insights into ancient marine ecosystems and fills an important gap in the study of Cretaceous life.
Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research ...
“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...
T o the untrained eye, the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), in northeastern South Africa, is kind of unassuming. It’s roughly the same size as West Virginia – or, for metric users, the Republic of ...
Curiosity has been exploring a region filled with boxwork formations, which formed billions of years ago when water leaked through rock cracks.
From the outside, it looks almost too unassuming: a perfect concrete disk, 377 feet (115) meters) wide, rising from the white ...
For sixty years, it sat in the archives as a geological oddity, a faint signal on aging USGS records suggesting something ...
The Brunhes-Matuyama reversal, which happened around 775,000 years ago, backs up the new findings. A study from 2019 found that the flip took 22,000 years to complete – so drawn-out reversals may be ...