A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

Before the rise of dinosaurs, Earth was a vastly different place, teeming with life in forms that were strange and unlike ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," which occurred around 252 million years ago and wiped out nearly ...

Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

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The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

A new website lets users pinpoint their home city and then see where it was located during the time of the dinosaurs, as well as during other periods of time across ancient Earth. Additionally ...

Ancient Earth saw a huge spike in meteor impacts. ... Earth has active plate tectonics, weathering, and erosion, and these processes smooth over our planet’s record of ancient craters.