The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

The eruption triggered fast-moving clouds of extremely hot gas and volcanic matter, known as pyroclastic flows, that surged ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Identical Dinosaur Prints Found on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean 3,700 Miles Apart Millions of years ago, the Atlantic Ocean split these continents but not before dinosaurs walked across them.

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

What paleontologists learned from fossils of a 3-eyed predator that lived 500 million years ago The unique features of Mosura fentoni astounded paleontologists.

The team’s reconstruction of the region’s ancient climate, based on fossil pollen, prehistoric plate tectonics, and modern comparisons, reveals a warm, humid landscape before the rise of the ...

Even worse, many fossils being bought privately or commercially are the most scientifically valuable: juveniles and subadults, which make up the least understood phase of T. rex development.