Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...
An international team of geologists and paleontologists, led by Dr Ryan Tucker from the Department of Earth Sciences at Stellenbosch University, has unveiled a revolutionary approach to dating ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how ...
Timing is crucial when it comes to understanding the origins of humanity. Developing better dating techniques to discover the ages of key fossils will help scientists to discover how Homo sapiens and ...
Paleolithic hunters built mammoth traps in what is now Mexico some 14,700 years ago. An unknown sea creature left footprints in sand some 550 million years ago, making them the oldest known footprints ...
Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...
Paranthropus boisei fossils date to 1.52 million years ago Species was a member of the human evolutionary lineage Fossils show it would have been able to grasp stone tools Oct 17 (Reuters) - ...
A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic clock” method to date the samples.