A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

In 2008, Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after more than a decade of hard work, they believe they've really ...

Researchers from Canada and France suggest that the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB), a rock formation located in northeastern Canada, may contain rocks dating back to around 4.16 billion years ago.

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...