Rock & Gem magazine describes Baltic amber as "sunstone", "Baltic gold", and "solar stone", noting its honeyed hue. Estimates ...

A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of ...

An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries — and decide when ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact ...

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

One billion years ago, a meteorite struck northwest Scotland, hitting the region 200 million years later than previously ...

What is exciting about our new date for the Stac Fada impact is that it now overlaps in age with microfossils preserved elsewhere in the Torridonian rocks. This raises some interesting questions.

Environmental stratigraphy deals with the use of microfossils and associated sedimentological and geochemical data in dated sediment cores to interpret environmental change, whether natural or ...