ERTH 114 California Geology, a field trip-based course at City College, visited Gaviota State Park beach for its first trip ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Victor Beccari, a PhD student, was studying reptile fossils at London’s Natural History Museum when he came across a familiar skeleton. The prehistoric lizard-like creature he was looking at, called a ...

The discovery in Ecuador of multiple pieces of insect-bearing amber —112 millions of years old—has opened a window to the secrets of a prehistoric forest. At this time, during the Cretaceous era, ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million years ago. By analysing chemical fossils in rocks, researchers identified ...