Divergent models persist for the emergence of animals. Lipid biomarkers suggest animals originated before 635 million years ago (Ma), but their body fossil record extends to only 574 Ma. Molecular clo...

Fern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis of the d...

A relatively volatile-poor asteroid from the outer Solar System was responsible for the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.

Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of years. But further clues to just how ancient this landscape is come from far b...

A new analysis of fossils uncovered in Central Africa offers additional evidence that a human ancestor walked upright 7 million years ago.

Abstract. The highest precision and accuracy in U–Pb geochronology is achieved using isotope dilution thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (ID-TIMS), a technique which owes its reliability to precise ...

The formation of the Moon by a giant impact of an object called Theia onto proto-Earth marks the end of the main stage of Earth’s accretion. However, …

Volcanic ash from an eruption in Greece poured into the sea, forming a bed 200 m thick in a submarine basin far from the volcano.

Many questions remain regarding Earth’s earliest crust owing to the rarity of Hadean (>4.03 billion-year-old) rocks and minerals. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB) in Canada may be the only known...

Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s

Abstract. The distribution of zircon crystallisation ages in igneous rocks has been proposed to provide insights into the dynamics of underlying magma reservoirs. However, the ability to interpret mag...

Postdoctoral training is a career stage often described as a demanding and anxiety-laden time when many promising PhDs see their academic dreams sl...

The Experimental Planetology Group of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (D-EAPS) invites applications for a 2-yr post-doctoral position on the experimental determination of liquid iron…