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 ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations ...

Paleontologists have long struggled to determine exactly when dinosaurs lived, especially at fossil sites lacking volcanic ash layers. A recent breakthrough changes that equation entirely. A new ...

New dating of sediments from the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa suggests some Australopithecus fossils are around 3.4 to ...

For almost half a century, a fragment of a human skull found on the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of ...