Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

When he saw the ripples encased within them, Jay Anderson knew there was something unique about the pieces of rock dislodged from a boulder in his Steele County gravel pit. Months later, those ripples ...

Walking along the Six Mile Creek there are rocks big and small glinting in the sunlight. You may think you’ve struck it rich before the gold stones disappointingly flake apart ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry , Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new ...

Saturday, Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. at Lowe-Volk Park, 2401 State Route 598.

Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists.

The 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool’s gold. The new species has been called Lomankus edgecombei, and is distantly related to ...

They had mostly gone extinct by the Ordovician Period (485-443 million ... Bed fossil site in central New York State. This layer of rock contains multiple well-preserved trilobites and other ...