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 ...

In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young surveyor named William Smith noticed a surprising pattern: from one location to the next, rock layers (or "strata") were ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

What are some events that all of us have had in our lives? Ask the class "What are some events that all of us have had in our lives?" Make a list of 5 or 6 things on the board. Let’s organize these!

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...

The Royal Commission for Al-Ula announced on Thursday the documentation and publication of rare fossils of a horseshoe crab ...

Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine ...