Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often used as a historical record for reconstructing earthquake histories.

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth's oceans after a global ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Florida’s riverbanks are hiding fossils from the Ice Age. As water levels drop and erosion does its work, ancient bones and teeth are exposed right in the mud. This video follows the hunt for ...

Deep in a remote river, massive paddlefish started surfacing one after another. These ancient, endangered fish moved with unbelievable power, turning a normal outing into a chaotic encounter with a ...

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...

The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic – and it turns out it might have been an even more impressive sight during the Pleistocene. A new study by researchers ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global ...

A group of researchers has estimated how long it took tyrannosaurus rex to reach its full size — and the time period is significantly longer than scientists previously believed. The dinosaur is ...