Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...

One supercontinent, millions of years ago. Using modern geography, I tried to sketch what Pangaea may have looked like—and ...

New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

Earth's magnetic field strength and atmospheric oxygen levels have oscillated in tandem for around 540 million years, ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

Under the world’s biggest iron ore deposits lies a 1.3 billion-year-old secret.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Former Jamaican prime minister PJ Patterson is calling for an unprecedented economic alliance between Africa and the ...

Scientists have uncovered an ancient landscape beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing a past environment with rivers and forests that existed between 14 and 34 million years ago. Using satellite data and ...

Around 220 million years ago, shifting climate conditions created an environment that allowed pterosaurs to evolve and take ...