The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run ...

Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million ... and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size (and perhaps larger) mammals emerged ...

SMU research reveals glaciers erode mountains faster than previously thought, with implications for climate change models and ...

A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. Over billions of years, the moon has been slowing down a full rotation of the earth due to the tides that the moon ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

The cold periods - or ice ages - are ... Between 36 and 20 million years ago the earth experienced the first of three major cooling steps. At this time a continental-scale temperate ice sheet ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.