The assumption that rocks have to be old and hard is an “urban legend,” says geologist Jan Zalasiewicz. He is a former head ...

The enormous ichthyosaur could have reached lengths exceeding 80 feet (25 meters) and existed during the Late Triassic period ...

The fact that Blue Anchor and Lilstock lie within the Westbury Mudstone geological formation helped the research team to link ...

Uncovering the mystery of Utah’s captivating Zion National Park, which is adorned with towering red and white Navajo ...

Newly discovered ichthyosaur that lived 200 million years ago in the Triassic sea is potentially the biggest to ever live, ...

Longenecker told the kids about quartz. He explained lithification. He showed them squeezed sand, called mudstone, that came ...

Ichthyosaurs are an extinct group of reptiles that are distant relatives of today’s lizards and snakes. They had long fins ...

In a study published in Science Advances, scientists have used new lithium isotope (δ7Li) data to show that continental clay ...

Fragments of bone discovered buried in ancient rock hint at a truly colossal Leviathan that once terrorized the waves.

The massive Ichthyosaur lived in the Late Triassic era and may have reached lengths of up to 80 feet .According to a recent study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, an ...

Both deposits are hosted in dissolution breccia zones at the contact between the Webb mudstone, the basal unit of the ...

Image caption, At Dunster Beach, the crashing waves were turned a dramatic shade of pink as Storm Pierrick hit the coast High ...