Extraordinary fossil discoveries reveal an important link between plate tectonics and extreme evolutionary changes just like that of a well-preserved 'Devonian coelacanth' fish that was just ...

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history.

Geology. The presence of oceans, continents and plate tectonics on Earth is most likely the reason there is no evidence for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, according to new research by ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Schematic representation of the process of subduction of tectonic plates and of a mantle plume ... fluid and well-mixed mantle found in most geology textbooks. Such a potentially major ...

Researchers from Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) came up with penguin fossil indicators ... the movement of the tectonic plates by which the division ...

now separated by thousands of miles and an ocean thanks to a geological process called plate tectonics. "When dinosaurs first appear in the fossil record, all the Earth's continents were part of ...