The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...

The boulders, being harder than the surrounding mudstone, endured while the rest of the rock eroded. The boulders that we see ...

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

A complex mixture of human and geological factors mean that this stunningly beautiful peninsula of seaside Southern ...

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

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

Both were found in what is known at the Westbury Mudstone Formation, within 6 miles (10 kilometers) of each other. This ichthyosaur was estimated to have been as much as 85 feet (26 m) long ...

The researchers collected about 600 mudstone samples spanning the late Neoproterozoic to mid-Cambrian (~660–500 mya) and analyzed their lithium isotope compositions alongside potassium relative ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a colossal marine reptile that may be the largest ever to have roamed Earth's oceans. The newly identified species, described in a study published ...

From the Jurassic Coast to the beaches of ‘Dinosaur Island’, these locations offer the best chance of bagging a prize relic ...