How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...

From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, Earth was seemingly quite a boring place. Continents moved little, and life ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This tectonic shift reduced volcanic carbon emissions, expanded shallow seas, and ...

Life may have survived in shallow liquid oceans during an extreme ice age around 650 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...