Imagine 8-foot-long millipedes scooting across the ground in search of rotting plants. While that thought may make your skin crawl, the creatures you have conjured did exist. That is the arthropleura, ...

Step back into the Carboniferous period ... The 13 Best Honda Motorcycles Ever Made Sound of a meteorite hitting Earth captured for the first time – on a doorbell camera ...

These shells, which are preserved across geological time, store chemical fingerprints of Earth’s past climate. By analyzing these fingerprints, the researchers determined how atmospheric CO 2 ...

can be seen using binoculars from the Northern Hemisphere. (Artwork shows an asteroid and Earth). A near-Earth asteroid with about the same diameter as The National Mall in Washington D.C. had a ...

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the ... of iconic “coal forests” full of giant insects in the Carboniferous period during the ice age. It also paved the way ...

Artist’s conception of the K2-360 system, showing the ultra-dense super-Earth K2-360 b (red) in its extremely close orbit around its Sun-like star, with the more distant companion K2-360 c (blue) in ...

In 1914, now 111 years ago, thousands of fossil footprints from the Late Carboniferous were discovered by Doctor Frank Raw (Geology Department, University of Birmingham) at Butts Quarry in Alveley, ...

Something strange is happening in Earth’s magnetic field, and it has caught NASA’s attention. A massive region of lower magnetic intensity, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), has appeared ...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is Earth's most important greenhouse gas ... the world to reconstruct how CO2 changed during the Carboniferous and Permian periods, between 335 to 265 million years ...