In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating European cave art by over 10,000 years.

Rocks dating back to the Earth’s Hadean Eon have finally had their antiquity confirmed as stretching back at least 4.16 ...

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of streaked gray stone on the eastern ...

The 50,000-year-old rock art at the centre of a 'big, dirty' gas project controversy Archaeologists say a federal government decision to extend the life of Woodside's North West Shelf project will ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Scientists just confirmed the world’s oldest rocks in northern Quebec. Some may have formed from Earth’s earliest seawater.

Scientists say they’ve extracted some of the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in northern Quebec. The rocks have ...

World’s oldest fungi, found in fossils, may rewrite Earth’s early history. Fungal fossils, ... says that he’s been working on this rock for more than a decade.

This May Be the Oldest Known Sign of Life on Earth Found embedded in crystal, the structures seem to be fossils formed around hydrothermal vents as much as 4.28 billion years ago. By Nadia Drake ...