A geobiologist has discovered possibly the oldest complex fossil – in his favorite rock
As a student at the University of New South Wales, Dr Erica Barlow picked up a rock that would change her life and quite possibly the way we see the…
As a student at the University of New South Wales, Dr Erica Barlow picked up a rock that would change her life and quite possibly the way we see the…
Heavy rains in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have brought to the surface an amazing discovery that has been hidden for millions of years. A team…
In the world's oldest crystals, collected from Jack Hills in Western Australia, lie the remains of even older rocks – some of which have been reworked by magma into the…
The Antikythera Mechanism - an ancient shoebox-sized device used to track the movements of the sun, moon and planets - followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar one used…
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Paleontologists in South Africa say they have discovered the world's oldest known burial site, containing the remains of a distant relative of small-brained humans previously thought to be incapable of…
The face of our oldest human ancestor has been recreated (Photo: Cicero Moraes/Pen News)If you've ever wondered what your ancestors looked like 300,000 years ago, look no further.The face of…
The world's oldest crystals show evidence of exposure to both fresh and salt water during their formation, a new study reports. This shows that the very early Earth had both…
Mention the Milky Way and most people will imagine a large spiral galaxy billions of years old. It is believed to be a galaxy that formed billions of years after…
MIT astronomers have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way's 'halo' - the…