Earth

The Cretaceous period of prehistory is mostly well known for its giant dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex. Much less well known, but...

When it comes to pushing back the literal rising tides of climate change, it's hard to think of anything that could provoke a stronger...

It wasn't just saber-toothed tigers who had long teeth back way back when. And there were predators far, far older than that species...

As our reliance on fossil fuels continues pumping more greenhouses gases into the air and making climate change that much worse, a...

Last March, archaeologists found the oldest human footprints ever discovered, located on a beach on Calvert Island in Canada. Those...

We've only ever recorded a handful of earthquakes in Antarctica, and many have assumed that our least popular continent was a very...

Since his original appearance on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens, Giorgio Tsoukalos' squinting, wild-haired face has been...

We've all wished for more hours in the day. Now, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Back in 2013, paleontologists dug up an unusual skeleton in Wyoming that clearly belonged to a dinosaur about 150 million years ago,...

Since their first discovery 80 eighty years ago, the Nazca Lines have fascinated people from around the world, sparking speculation...

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, a scientific agency that studies Earth's oceans and skies)...

When a six-mile-wide asteroid single-handedly kills 75 percent of life on Earth and leaves a crater over a hundred miles wide, you'd...

At first glance, the reptile Megachirella wachtleri pictured above looks like a normal lizard. And it should — it's the direct...

For the past several weeks, the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii's big island has been destroying homes and forcing nearby residents to...

If you've ever struggled with dandruff, know that you're not alone. Dinosaurs had it, too.The oldest known case of dandruff now dates...

Despite being a haven for life, Earth has some pretty inhospitable environments--the deep ocean has enough darkness, low temperatures,...

Ice cores, long vertical samples taken from glaciers and ice sheets, can tell us a lot about the past — details in each individual...

When a satellite is supposed to last for 15 years, it's more than a little frustration when it starts breaking down less than three...

It would be one thing if a single invasive species began making a home somewhere it wasn't supposed to. But when there's several...

There's a lot of reasons why Earth doesn't look like Mars right now (and most of them involve water), and one thing keeping Earth...