Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa's Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest ...

Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has crumbled. You would not ...

A hike around the lovely Shaddox Hollow Trail at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area leads to forest, streams and rock. Lots and lots of rock. So much rock that a self-guided geology tour now lets ...

While there is fossil evidence of life older than 3.3bn years, this is the first time that its molecular chemical fingerprints have been detected through high-tech sleuthing.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- A million years ago, dry seasons became more frequent and forests retreated before the encroaching savanna. Meanwhile, clustered around a nearby lake, our ancient ancestors ...

L-78 (Oil Stripped Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens. L-78 (Oil Stripped Chert): Several flakes have been taken off of this ...

L-129 (ailey Chert): Collection includes outer surface and naturally-weathered specimens. L-129 (Bailey Chert): T145 R3W Sect. 35 Bailey Chert, also known as Grassy Knob, Blair, and St. David, is a ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

Big Four Mountain's mystery: 82-degree tilted rock layers defy geology's horizontal rule. There’s a basic rule in geology: Sedimentary rock layers build up horizontally. So how did the slabs of Big ...