Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

The United States has a habit of showcasing its geology. Long before cities and highways showed up, forces beneath the surface were already shaping cliffs, caves, faults, and craters that still define ...

The ground beneath us isn't as stable as we'd like to think. While we go about our daily lives, some of Earth's most ...

Denmark’s Møns Klint features towering white chalk cliffs, UNESCO recognition, coastal trails, rich geology and exceptional dark-sky experiences.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...

The closure of a company that has made a series of major mineral resource discoveries across the Arctic might mean a looming ...

This illustrated geologic timescale of Earth focuses on the landscapes, flora and fauna of the West, drilling into the region’s deep history.

A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, followed by a larger 4.2 magnitude ...

US vice-president JD Vance outlined plans for the new trading zone at a 55-nation ministerial conference which included India ...

A light, 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Montana on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...