For the past several years, Penn State geoscientist Sarah Ivory and her students have been among a team of scientists scaling the East African Rwenzori Mountains, collecting sediment core samples from ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free ...

Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, has a captivating blend of rich history, diverse landscapes, and vibrant cultures. Despite its size (it’s only 3,572 square miles!), the country ...

Trump-backed Ed Gallrein ousted Congressman Thomas Massie in Kentucky's Republican House primary. And, police have identified ...

A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, stretching back 1.2 million years. The data were extracted from a ...

Summary: The “Cambrian Explosion”, the period roughly 500 million years ago when animal life rapidly diversified, may not have been a sudden burst of innovation. New research suggests this was a ...

There are various theories regarding the exact duration of the Sturtian glaciation, but it is generally believed to have lasted for a long period of approximately 56 million years, between about 717 ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ago when a remarkable diversity of animal life appeared in the fossil record.