A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

ARPA-H, part of HHS, has earmarked up to $142 million for 10 research projects building the tools, data, and infrastructure needed to tackle treatment resistance.

The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Arizona’s Petrified Forest reveals North America’s oldest pterosaur.

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to determine how sea level must have varied also on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years.

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

In a stunning revelation, scientists have unearthed shark fossils dating back 325 million years in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

A stunning discovery deep within Mammoth Cave has uncovered two prehistoric sharks, frozen in time for over 325 million years ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...