Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction – the most extreme event of its kind in Earth’s history. What followed was a ...

"Until now, the absence of any truly ancient craters means they are largely ignored by geologists. "This study provides a crucial piece of the puzzle of Earth's impact history and suggests there ...

Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, deepening of Earth’s ocean basins may have caused a sea level change of similar magnitude, but in the opposite direction. (Image credit: NASA) ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful ... “Our research shows that ancient glaciers did far more than shape the landscape - they triggered ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.