Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

Coelophysis was a slender carnivorous dinosaur that lived during a time when Earth looked nothing like it does today. Fossil ...

The Finke River flows through sandstone cliffs and rugged terrains of central Australia, creating oasis-style landscapes and ...

The Triassic period marked a chaotic chapter in Earth’s history following the planet’s largest mass extinction. This ...

From compelling stories to non-fiction, books can spark ideas that help us navigate the climate crisis. As part of the Climate Storytelling strand, climate research and creative w ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Hidden deep beneath the Earth’s surface are vast underground lakes formed within caves and geological basins. In this ...

Imagine a volcanic eruption so massive it could plunge the Earth into darkness, trigger widespread famine, and alter the ...

Modern sightings of living coelacanths in the 20th century surprised the world, but this fish species’ story goes back a long way. Although coelacanth remains are well known from Paleozoic and ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...