An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary chemistry.

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

What secrets can we unearth about the future of our planet from this petrified forest in Arizona? Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...