For years, scientists have wondered if a certain stretch of rock in Canada could be home to the world’s oldest rocks, and now ...

An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s oldest rocks, dating back 3.7 billion years, ...

Betty Reid Soskin, who was the National Park Service’s oldest active ranger when she retired at age 100, has died. She was 104. She passed away “peacefully” at her home in Richmond, California on ...

Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and working out how best to mine them, experts say. When ...

It’s not often when an NFL player can compete into their 40s and hit two decades of playing in the league, but every year seems to have at least a couple players who are in this category. So, who’s ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Is something better just because it's old? Of course not, but there is virtue in antiquity. Restaurants, for instance, aren't great because of when they were created, but because of the food they ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem from 249 million years ago. A pod of the small-bodied ichthyopterygian ('fish-lizard') Grippia longirostris hunting squid-like ammonoids (top left). The marine ...

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