Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart.

Second on the podium is the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the Lake District of England. Taking the bronze is the Skye Lava ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The Open Space and Recreation Working Group hosted a hike through Willis Woods to a glacial erratic, one of many large boulders deposited across North America by retreating glaciers at the end of the ...

With a new book on the history of wind, Simon Winchester opens up about fear, aging, and the adventures that shaped him ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

By harvesting simple rock from local farms and property, a Massachusetts craftsman slices them, grinds them and finishes them ...

Indonesia’s Mount Semeru, the highest peak on Java island, erupted Wednesday, blanketing several villages with falling ash, ...

CEO Peter Goh said Ives North represents the most compelling walk-up target defined to date by Albion Resources, with ...

In Eagle County, many of us spend our time looking up toward mountain peaks, sunsets, or circling hawks, but some of the most ...

"This discovery extends the known range of Tenontosaurus farther southwest than previously documented," Ricketts said. "Until now, fossils of this species were known primarily from localities farther ...