Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Most people are busy with life on Earth. They rarely get the chance to think deeply about complex topics. And so they take the ideas of why we know certain things with relatively equal values — maybe ...

Using sophisticated methods of dating rocks, a team including University of Southampton researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have pinned down the timing of the start of ...

North America's prehistoric art can sometimes be overlooked, the public's gaze instead entranced by 30,000-year-old drawings in France's Chauvet Cave or 46,000-year-old animal paintings in Sulawesi, ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

Berkeley -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to ...