Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

Life may have survived in shallow liquid oceans during an extreme ice age around 650 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

In a geologic balancing act ... loonger via Getty Images Plate tectonics also may have enabled life to recover from devastating mass extinctions. For instance, at the end of the Permian period, a mass ...

The Jurassic period was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush vegetation and abundant life. Many new dinosaurs emerged—in great numbers. Above, Dimorphodon reptiles fly over a ...

Of the incredible creatures that once dominated the Earth, it is the larger, terrestrial animals that get the most attention.

The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry ...