A University of Sydney student has developed a completely new way to peer inside coral fossils to recover lost records of past climate change.

A breakthrough in nuclear imaging is unlocking coral fossils to reveal 600,000 years of reef and climate evolution.

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...

Scientists perform postmortem examinations on two fossils Two Pterodactylus hatchlings had identical wing fractures They lived 150 million years ago during Jurassic Period Sept 19 (Reuters) - 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, South ...

(Reuters) - A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea - one day roughly 150 million ...

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

Phoenix Mercury fans Kevin Arnett and Veronica Philpot are known for their custom, rhinestone-covered jerseys. Arnett, known as the "Bling King," spends six to eight hours hand-placing rhinestones on ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...