A bold claim about Earth’s earliest known meteorite impact has been reevaluated after new evidence emerged from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. A site previously thought to host a 3.5-billion ...

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...