This 2.1-billion-year-old sediment from a clay formation in Gabon has high concentrations of potassium, which could only have been caused by ancient microbes, according to new research.

Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks

Zermatt in the Western Alps.

More ‘reactive’ land surfaces cooled the Earth down

Rock Forming Minerals

Rock Forming Minerals : 10 Most Common Rock Forming Minerals

Calcified plankton dating from 95 million years ago (images captured in the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre)

Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago

continents

New model suggests lost continents for early Earth

Crittendeceratops

When the dinosaurs died, lichens thrived

Illustration of marine fossils that have existed since the Cambrian. Represented taxa include brachiopods, trilobites, ammonites, bivalves, and decapods.

A new normal: Study explains universal pattern in fossil record

Fragment of Tarbosaurus lower jaw with teeth sampled (white stripes on tooth enamel)

Tooth enamel analyses offer insights into the diet and habitat of...

Eocoracias brachyptera fossil sample used for this study.

Blue color tones in fossilized prehistoric feathers

The velocity model showing a map view of the MHT and a cross-section passing through the Gorkha earthquake

Study reveals key factor in Himalayan earthquake rupture

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