Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

The gemstone market value is $23bn and growing, as investors increasingly look to precious stone alternatives to the ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, "groundbreaking" new fossil research reveals.

The new research suggests that the necessity for large oceans, continents and plate tectonics—the latter lasting for over 500 million years—should also be taken into account. Map of the Word ...

A GROUNDBREAKING new model shows how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion years ago. The scientific theory of plate tectonics strives to explain how mountains, ...

Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ... It starts with the map of the world familiar to everyone.

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Earth is not a static, unchanging ball of rock. Your day-to-day perception of the ground you stand on might suggest otherwise, but our planet is an ever-changing, shape-shifting globule of crust ...

British biologist and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace gives his name to the Wallace Line ... which marks the place where the ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri, the new fossil coelacanth, is the first fish found in the area to bear a name given to us from ... These included tectonic plate activity, ocean temperatures, water oxygen ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...