About 201 million years ago, at the close of a geological period called the Triassic, one of the worst mass extinctions in ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field behaved in a way that has long baffled scientists, showing wild and seemingly chaotic shifts unlike anything seen before or since. A new study ...

About a billion years ago, Earth started to come into its own. It was past the awkwardness of its younger years full of ...

A group of Earth scientists led by Utrecht University has created an online tool that shows where any place on Earth was located hundreds of millions of years ago. Using a refined geological ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...