Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

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

Climate change is accelerating continental rifting, the geological process where landmasses slowly pull apart. According to a ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around Earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, ...

For much of the last 485 million years, the global climate fluctuated wildly between extremely hot and extremely cold weather, findings that researchers said have major implications for today’s ...

Critical minerals are abundant, but without political continuity and legitimate governance, they remain out of reach.

While it’s not confirmed exactly when the Hillsborough mastodon gained the name Marmaduke, the July 9 edition of the Saint ...

Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, but only a few rocks survive that were formed at the onset of the planet's history.

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

How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers ...