Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

Underlying the Persian Gulf itself is a basin filled with debris eroded from the rising of the Zagros Mountains. In its ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the past? A study recently published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Lausanne presents a new geological "rock ...

This tiny Ohio island village hides one of the Midwest’s most incredible natural wonders, with landscapes and spots waiting ...

Spokesperson for the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) Tariq Aba Al-Khail reported that an earthquake was recorded by the ...

A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster ...

Deep within Earth, subtle variations in how seismic waves travel are revealing a hidden pattern of deformation in the planet’s lowest mantle layer.

A new seismic study has uncovered large-scale deformation patterns nearly 1,800 miles beneath Earth’s surface. The findings ...

A flood, the scale of which has not been seen in centuries, is coming, scientists say. Can we prepare before it hits?

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in Indonesia on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.