But as our climate changes and plate movement picks up, could we be in danger of the reverse occurring, with the ...

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

The Earth as we know it today is the result of billions of years of geological activity, where continents have shifted, ...

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

Zealandia sits in the Southern Hemisphere and is around 5 million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles) big, but 95 ...

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

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

It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the lowlands of what was then the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana (today the central Karoo), has been found to have lived and ...

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