The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, ...

Some animal facts sound like internet exaggerations until you look at the research behind them. Biologists and field ...

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern ...

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million ...

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence ...

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist and biologist whose work changed the way people thought about life on Earth. He ...

What may look like a single volcanic eruption is usually the visible outcome of far more complicated activity taking place underground. Beneath the surface, magma can migrate, cool, mix, and ...

The mechanisms underlying two important phenomena in the Archean—the emergence of continental crust and the presence of an exceptionally strong geomagnetic field—remain poorly understood. Notably, ...

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...