I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

A “serrated blade” found sticking from a rock on Isle of Wight in the UK has ... “Almost all the large vertebrates on Earth, on land, at sea, and in the air (all dinosaurs, plesiosaurs ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most of their time attached to rocks on the sea bottom or on coral reefs waiting for fish to pass close enough to ...

M. Margneritte, of Paris, well-known as a distinguished chemist, has discovered a valuable mode of purifying rock and sea salt. The latter is, for the most part, delivered for consumption in such ...

Newfoundland and Labrador’s spectacular rock isn't just a draw for photographers. For some, jagged cliffs and banks of boulders are meant to be gripped and scaled. They are rock climbers. The Land & ...