Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Imagine stepping back 200 million years into a world vastly different from the Earth we know today. During the age of dinosaurs, one colossal landmass, Pangaea, dominated the surface, surrounded by ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

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

New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

The notion of consensus is poorly suited to scientific practice, where conclusions must remain revisable in light of new ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...