Radiometric dating measures the decay of radioactive elements to determine the absolute age of rocks and fossils. This technique provides precise dates, enhancing our understanding of when ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered that radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, broke down into other elements in a predictable sequence or series. This amazing ...

The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...

A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before any interactions with Homo sapiens. A total of 15 small marine fossils were found in ...

Ancient human fossils discovered in a cave in eastern China have traits of both primitive and modern humans – a finding that could potentially challenge the “out of Africa” theory of human ...

Authors Scott Evans and Ian Hughes mapping Uncus specimens on a fossil bed surface at Nilpena Ediacara National Park. A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an ...

An unusual result of relentless rains causing historic flooding in southern Brazil has been the revelation of a “very well-preserved” dinosaur fossil dating back some 200 million years.

stretch of coastline in southern England littered with fossils dating to the Jurassic period (201 million to 145 million years ago). The Fossil Forest holds some of the strangest fossils on the ...

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