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 ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

Fossils are the remains or traces left behind by life forms that existed long ago and are normally found in sedimentary rocks. They are usually very small, like micro shells or pollen, and sometimes ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

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During this time, collection visits will be available by appointment and other special access requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please email [email protected] for more ...

In October 1666, a large shark was captured by a French fishing boat in the sea of Livorno (modern Italy, at the time part of the reign of Tuscany). The animal was pulled onto the shore, beaten to ...

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled. Some even jumped to conclusions, suggesting the fossils were proof of the ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

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