The Earth continues its journey. Beneath our feet, a tale not everyone knows. On the surface of history we rest. To look into the crust To look into the rock And see the past firmly pressed. Igneous, ...

The trick to a successful search for fossils is finding the proper place. After all, paleontologists rarely select their sites at random. Instead, they consider an assortment of areas — comparing the ...

Collectors of all ages have always been interested in rocks and the minerals that make them up. They come in countless shapes, sizes and colors. There are three main types of rocks: sedimentary, ...

Scientists studying microbial communities and the growth of sedimentary rock at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park have made a surprising discovery about the geological record of life ...

Location of the sedimentary rocks – known as cherts – that were investigated: Shatsky Rise in the northern West Pacific is the world's third-largest oceanic plateau, covering an area larger than ...