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 ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil ...

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In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

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Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

Fans want him to make their bed rock — thanks to his rock-hard abs and his rock-solid knowledge. Meet Fossil Daddy — a 36-year-old, queer paleontologist from Massachusetts who is using his platform to ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no ...