The origin of life, and how to get to that very point, have been as mysterious as they are fascinating. It is one of the greatest questions that humans have att ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

An international research team, including Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum, has discovered a trio of supermassive “Red Monster” ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

[Related: The ‘granddaddy’ of all early hominins walked on Earth a lot longer than we thought.] Fossil teeth can help us ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

It was the most complete early hominid skeleton at that time — by a lot (SN: 1/4/75). Geology had worked in Johanson and Gray’s favor. Lucy’s remains were not found where she died. Flooding had ...