One supercontinent, millions of years ago. Using modern geography, I tried to sketch what Pangaea may have looked like—and ...

Earth's magnetic field strength and atmospheric oxygen levels have oscillated in tandem for around 540 million years, ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

Under the world’s biggest iron ore deposits lies a 1.3 billion-year-old secret.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Former Jamaican prime minister PJ Patterson is calling for an unprecedented economic alliance between Africa and the ...

Scientists have uncovered an ancient landscape beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing a past environment with rivers and forests ...

In this imagined world, Australia would not be a single nation of 28 million but possibly a version of Africa, long ago ...

Around 220 million years ago, shifting climate conditions created an environment that allowed pterosaurs to evolve and take ...

The skies were empty for most of Earth’s history, but then light‑boned reptiles mastered powered flight roughly ...