About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

A federal judge has refused to block a winter oil and gas exploration project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

It’s not up to federal officials whether to extend a month-long public comment period for the proposed deep geological ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

A long public service career that began in a very different system. Peter Cook explains why it would not happen now.

Overnight on Jan. 26, many people online reported hearing loud booms, mistakenly assuming they were tremors or earthquakes ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...