Pannotia holds an odd place in Earth science. It is mentioned in textbooks and review papers, but its outline is unclear. The ...

Before Pangea ever existed, Earth already pulled off a massive experiment called Nuna, and it quietly changed life forever.

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones ...

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

Scientists in China have discovered fossils of a new mammal-like reptile species in Gansu province – the first of its genus to be found in both South Africa and China. The finding suggests that Late ...

Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, July 29, 1959. It is republished unedited in its original form, with the children’s nations of origin as Baker identified them at ...