New evidence from rocks, molecules and machine learning is forcing scientists to redraw the opening chapters of Earth’s story ...

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

Longer than two cars, and weighing more than a hippopotamus, researchers have discovered that giant sharks roamed the shallow waters of Australia’s north coast 115 million years ago. The Western ...

Humans reached, settled, and thrived on Mindoro far earlier than most scientific timelines for allow for the evolution of ...