Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

British museum fossils, misidentified for over a century, are now known to be ancient coelacanth fish. This discovery dramatically increases the number of known specimens from the British Triassic ...

The fossil was uncovered in Myanmar’s Kachin region and has been identified as a new species named Cretosabethes primaevus.

The Guryul Ravine, part of the Permian-Triassic Boundary section ... 1.6 million years and fossils of ancient species, ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring ...

Ancient trees may have played a key role in regulating Earth's climate during the last ice age—by 'breathing' less ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Long before humans worried about climate change, the planet experienced a storm that never seemed to end. Scientists believe the Carnian Pluvial Event unleashed greenhouse gases, volcanic eruptions, ...

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...