According to a 2013 U.S. Geological Survey study, the basalt beneath Oregon and Washington could hold more than 14,000 ...

Underneath Iceland's sometimes snowy surface is a boiling cauldron of superheated magma. It's a bane to residents who are at ...

Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...

Aided by more than $11 million in grant funding, researchers plan to build a huge drilling rig and determine whether carbon ...

Zircon is a mineral that often forms in volcanic rocks and fossils, trapping uranium when it forms while ... While there are ...

Zion National Park is more than just a park for so many of its park visitors. It has become a Pilgrimage, a place to find oneself within nature. It is also easy to say the heartbeat of this endeavor ...

Air travelers heading into Reykjavík were treated to an arresting view on Thursday evening. This video captured from an ...

Great Abaco Island has a blue hole, Sawmill Sink, filled with fossils from the Ice Age showing the island's ancient history.

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group now dates back 550 million years ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

Scientists have identified Uncus dzaugisi, the oldest ecdysozoan fossil from the Precambrian period, confirming long-held ...

Samples from the far side of the moon gathered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission record eons of tumultuous lunar history ...