Researchers have discovered two new species in a 125-million-year-old fossil in China. While they’d be wiped out by a T-Rex ...

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A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

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Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

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Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.