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 ...

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom's nucleus -- particles called hadrons that most of us would ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University study on over 500,000 lung cancer patients found that higher BMI lowered death risk during ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, scientists led by Flinders University and experts from Canada, Australia, ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

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

A live recreation of the Ngamugawi wirngarri coelacanth in its natural habitat. Palaeoart illustration Katrina KennyClimate change and asteroids are ...

In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.

The video reconstructs Earth’s surface evolution, presented as a relative plate motion model and it's stunning.

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, scientists have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ...

A new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of Earth’s tectonic plate movements into a mesmerizing two-minute video. Led by Dr. Xianzhi Cao of the Ocean University of China, this animation provides a ...

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, ...