Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are trays of cylindrical rock cores drilled decades ago by ...

The findings suggest that mass extinctions are not always caused by a single dramatic event.

Scientists claim to have discovered the remains of microorganisms in Canada that are at least 3.77 billion years old. If they are proven to have a biological origin, they would be the oldest ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen in this illustration Using a revolutionary new imaging process, ...

The Gunflint Formation, which straddles Lake Superior's northwestern shore, contains a treasure trove of geological clues about the evolution of life. After a recent geological reassessment of this ...

An Indian geologist discovered a microfossil that is said to be 2 billion years old. A paleontologist is pictured uncovering a fossil in central Bulgaria on June 07, 2017. Getty Images A geologist in ...

Scientists have confirmed that the 3.4-billion-year-old Strelley Pool microfossils had chemical characteristics similar to modern bacteria. This all but confirms their biological origin and ranks them ...

Images of the newly discovered microfossil from the 1.9-billion-year-old Gunflint Formation. Scientists have long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes occurred. In contrast ...

MONTREAL — Scientists claim to have discovered the remains of microorganisms in Canada that are at least 3.77 billion years old. If they are proven to have a biological origin, they would be the ...