The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes ...

The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Researchers created Itiner-e, a "Google Maps for Roman Roads," charting the network that linked the expansive ancient empire.

Readers respond to news and opinion articles about Bill Gates’s public memo on climate change. Also: Interfaith connections; ...

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The strange data once appeared to defy the rules of geomagnetism, hinting that our ...