A wedge of sediment, pushed up by glacial movement, may be a buffer against moderate sea level rise, pointing to ocean temperature rise as the key factor in glacial retreat, according to two papers…

A decade ago, Shuhai Xiao, associate professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues discovered thousands of 600-million-year-old embryo microfossils in the Doushantuo Formation, a…

Dr Gavin Prideaux, paleontologist for Western Australian Museum and Flinders University, publishes an article in international journal Geology's January 2007 edition that is certain to fuel what has…