Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Closely related to the history of sedimentary rocks are the age of the Earth as an astronomical body and the evolution of the planetary system. We shall see from the discussion of the following ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

BEFORE the time of the Scotch geologist, James Hut- ton, some 6,000 years was believed to indicate the age of the earth, and, indeed, of the entire universe. The advent of the uniformitarian ...

PROF. PERRY and I had not to wait long after the publication of his article “On the Age of the Earth” (NATURE, January 3, 1895, pp. 224–227) to learn that there was no ground for the ...