long before dinosaurs, earth was ruled by oceans filled with bizarre creatures and landscapes that barely resemble the world ...

Approximately 290 million years ago, a carnivorous dinosaur stomping around present-day Germany had a tummy ache. The Paleozoic predator eventually vomited up its stomach contents, and then hopefully ...

New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the CNRS (France) documents the earliest occurrence of a fossilized regurgitation ...

A trio of ancient mesas is rewriting what we know about wind, sand, and deep-time geology, captured in stunning detail from space.

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the central role in atmospheric carbon swings and long-term ...

Deformation structures in rocks are an essential source of information to understand the tectonic history of a region. The study of microstructures helps to comprehend the deformation processes that ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows a trio of ancient "black mesas", which sit side-by-side in the Sahara desert. The dark structures have enabled a series of rare sand dunes to form around them ...

A new study finds that Earth’s climate flipped between chaotic and calm states during the Late Paleozoic, 360 to 250 million years ago. During a roughly 50-million-year lull in tectonic activity, ...

When the Earth woke up from an ice age, the Paleozoic Era began. Editorial: Another daylight robbery of the U.S. Treasury Woman says hospital discharged her in labor, leading to roadside birth Another ...

A three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh and using state-of ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions between Earth's tectonic activity and astronomical cycles jointly shaped ...