A new study reveals that vegetation shifts—triggered by global cooling and paleogeographic change—also accelerated major climate changes during the Late Miocene, creating a feedback loop.

P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

Here's a couple interesting cases of times we thought entire continents existed where, unsurprisingly, there were none.

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.

Researchers uncovered footprints left by dinosaurs who could roam from Africa to South America when the continents were part of Gondwana.

ABSTRACT: The Oligocene-Miocene trajectory exposed at the Lubuk Lawas and Lubuk Bernai Stratigraphic Tracks in Bukit Tigapuluh, Jambi Subbasin, Indonesia, archives remnants of equatorial vegetation ...

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean.

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...

If Earth's first continents formed by subduction, that meant that continents started moving between 3.6 to 4 billion years ago -- as little as 500 million years into the planet's existence.

This is the first known example of a European Miocene fossil site with multiple ancient ape species, though the authors suggest that re-examination of other similar sites might uncover more ...

Shutterstock Hot and moist in the mid-Miocene A rich fossil and sediment record exists from the mid-Miocene. Marine sediments off WA suggest the west and southwest part of Australia was arid.