Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

A breakthrough in fossil dating from central Turkey is offering a new timeline for mammal evolution in Eurasia—thanks to volcanic ash and advanced radiometric techniques. In a new study published in ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...