Standing on the summit of Mount Everest feels like reaching the highest possible point on Earth. The mountain rises nearly ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites—McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far from the truth. One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed ...

Rocks may seem like ordinary objects beneath our feet, but they hold extraordinary stories about the Earth and play a vital ...

Fossilized dinosaur eggshells may hold the key to determining when surrounding rocks and fossils were buried. A study published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment reports that uranium-lead ...

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...