For the first time, Japan has carved out a spot for itself among the hundred or so geologic ages recognized ... Period between 150 million and 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed ...

The unique geological formation came into existence 2 billion years ago when magma rose ... living microorganisms from prehistoric times being discovered in 250-million-year-old rock salt in ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million ... planet's geologic past," she says. "We dated these minerals in the Martian meteorite Lafayette and found that they formed 742 million years ago.

T he fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered ...

Anyone living on Earth between 720 million and 635 million years ago probably would've needed ... a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

Japan is seeing a record boom in tourism, but one recent visitor travelled more than the circumference of the earth to get ...

Here’s how it works. Lucy and her fellow australopithecines may have created and used tools more than 3 million years ago, a new study of hand muscles suggests. The finding provides further ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers to ...

Four years ago, in the wake of his election defeat at the hands of Biden, Trump refused to concede and tried unsuccessfully to overturn the results. Breaking with longstanding tradition ...