Around 55 million years ago, Earth experienced one of the warmest climates in its history. This period, known as the early ...

Around 55 million years ago, Earth experienced one of the warmest climates in its history. This period, known as the early ...

Weathering is a complex process comprising physical disaggregation, chemical and biological decomposition of rocks and minerals transforming complex structure minerals in simpler ones. Hydrolysis of ...

An international research team has uncovered 270-million-year-old fossil tracks belonging to a dog-like predator considered one of the earliest mammal ancestors on the island of Mallorca. Led by ...

The atmosphere of Earth during the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago, contained far more carbon dioxide than it does today and total photosynthesis from plants around the world was ...

Teeth of a Camarasaurus, found in the Morrison Formation, USA, which were also analyzed in the research. Credit: Sauriermuseum Aathal A new method allows scientists to reconstruct carbon dioxide ...

Last week, more than 70 experts in Earth’s geologic history, including geochronologists, astrochronologists, and paleoclimatologists, gathered in person and online at Carnegie Science’s Earth & ...

You wouldn’t think that one of the world’s tallest trees would be easy to hide. But when Rio Baran of Princeton’s Class of 2025 set out to study a 350-foot California redwood, she was sworn to secrecy ...

Great apes began to diverge from other primates around 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records. Though it would take another 20 million or so years for upright-walking ...

Derived from natural records and model simulations, paleoclimate evidence extends instrument-based observations of Earth’s climate changes on inner-annual to glacial-interglacial time scales, ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, ...