Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

A Lake Older Than Mountains Lakes, like mountains, can last millions of years. However, most lakes are short-lived in ...

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.

Currently, the oldest dinosaur fossils discovered are around 230 million years old. Scientists believe more excavation is needed to uncover the true origins of dinosaurs on Earth. However ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no ... as well as the history of life on Earth. The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million years ago) is the second of Earth ...

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth's first continents. The very first rocks The oldest rocks on ...

this is a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth." Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region.

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth ... and the craters left behind might have been the place that life on Earth began. The scientists involved were able to identify ...

The reign of T. rex and Co. ended around a measly 66 million years ago, but geologists just discovered that what is now considered the oldest impact crater on Earth is nearly 3.5 billion years old.

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

The previous oldest known crater was 2.2 billion years old. It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might have been the ...