Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

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THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

Johnson reports the crater can be seen today only in a 35-mile wide dome that marks exactly where the asteroid impacted.

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

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.

Researchers uncover the oldest asteroid crater in Australia, revealing its role in shaping Earth’s ancient climate.

"It would be near the diameter of the impact that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second-largest impact structure on Earth," he said. "So, it is likely ...