Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Research has shown the complex history behind this gap of missing ...

The Malvern Hills are some of the oldest and hardest rocks in the country. Find out more of the origins of the hills. See our picture gallery of Gullet Quarry and the rock strata around it. To ...

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history. In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young ...