A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...

making it the oldest chunk of Earth to ever have been discovered – though it’s not the oldest thing we’ve ever found on the planet. The ancient crystal was found in the sticks of Western ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ... Remarkably, when we returned to the vehicle, we all thought we'd found the same thing: shatter cones. Shatter cones are beautiful ...

Your browser does not support the video element. The durable mineral zircon is the oldest known stuff in our Earth's crust. It is formed only under extreme ...

Now, scientists working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa—where some of the oldest rocks on Earth are preserved—find evidence ... Researchers have found more fossil evidence of the ...

Recently, a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found that some of the world's oldest cratons are breaking apart. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.