Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

A group of college geology students appear to have vandalized ancient Native American rock art on a canyon wall in Utah. The US Forest Service and local law enforcement are investigating the incident, ...

New research near Uluru in Australia's arid center shows that rock structures formed deep within the ancient Gondwana supercontinent controlled the rupture pathways of one of Australia's largest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Geology has inspired everything from great science fiction ...

You probably know that we have a state bird and a state flower and a state tree. You might know that we also have a state invertebrate fossil. No, it is not THE trilobite — there is no such thing.

When hiking Inks Lake State Park, little did I know it sits on the east edge of the Llano Uplift, the geologic heart of Texas, offering some of the best views of pre-Cambrian geology (more than 600 ...

The Perseverance rover mission aims to explore Jezero Crater on Mars, a location selected due to geological evidence suggesting a past lake fed by the Neretva Vallis river, indicated by river channels ...