Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period ... For the most part the Earth's climate was warm and wet, with sea levels rising as much as 1,970 feet (600 meters) above those of today.

Scientists use the evidence recorded within rocks throughout geologic time to reconstruct a picture of earth's history. Amateurs, too, can look at local rocks to learn about what life was like in the ...

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

an era in Earth's history known as the Ordovician during which our planet witnessed dramatically increased asteroid impacts.

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...