Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate is breaking off horizontally with a tear progressively ...

Japan Sea element plants are generally thought to have evolved from closely related species on the Pacific side. Camellia japonica and Camellia rusticana were also believed to follow this pattern.

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the ...

Around 6 million years ago, between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs—or ... desiccated salt plain between the European and African continents. Until, that is, this roughly 600,000-year-long ...

Researchers in other parts of the world have explored whitefly and psyllid fossils in places like the Eocene deposits on the Isle of Wight, as well as the Miocene layers in Europe. Comparisons across ...