A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

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 ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an ...

Over 300 million years ago, all the continents we know today were joined together in a massive supercontinent called Pangaea.

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Imagine discovering a set of footprints on a remote beach, only to later find an identical set thousands of miles away. This ...

What’s more, the Moroccan site is in northwest Africa, far from the sites in East and South Africa that have yielded many of Africa’s other hominin fossils. To paleoanthropologists ...