A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. An international team of researchers investigated how Earth’s ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

The expansion of early land plants across terrestrial environments has been a key focus in planetary evolution research due to its crucial role in raising oxygen levels and transforming the living ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

Dominican amber preserves a 16-million-year-old ant queen, marking the first fossil evidence of Hypoponera in the Americas.

New Curtin University research has uncovered a striking link between the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of Earth's crust, showing its development was shaped by the impact of meteorites ...