Rio Baran's senior thesis research sought to explore what few scientists have attempted. “Rio is an exceptional undergraduate student,” said her adviser, geosciences professor John Higgins.

Just what led to the demise of the dinosaurs is often debated ... accurate dating yet shows that the volcanoes doubled their output in close proximity to the asteroid or comet strike that set off the ...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

a volcano that has collapsed in on itself. It last erupted around 1,800 years ago. Sauropods, the inspiration for Boom Boom, are one of a few species of dinosaurs that paleontologists say lived in New ...

Chances are it will be stomping around a dark, barren landscape, in a foul mood, gobbling up passing creatures, while a volcano spews lava in the ... That’s just not possible - dinosaurs were extinct ...

It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

Earth’s Biggest Threats: Earth, the only home we know won’t last forever. Some big, dangerous things could happen that might ...

While we often think about the impact of life on land, such as the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, the asteroid strike also had a severe impact on life in the sea. "We know that the asteroid ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological ...

Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.

The history of the animals that inhabit the Earth has had many ups and downs, which have led many species to extinction, ...