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 ...

The researchers say experimental simulations—combined with geological, geophysical and geodetic data—explain the enigmatic ...

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 ...

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, ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. The processes that control the ...

The team examined the impact of plate tectonic forces on ocean chemistry during the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, collectively known as the Mesozoic era. Gondwana supercontinent once roamed by the ...

Jacobs, a paleontologist from Southern Methodist University (SMU). "In their geological and plate tectonic contexts, they were also similar. "In terms of their shapes, they are almost identical." ...

“In their geological and plate tectonic contexts, they were also similar. In terms of their shapes, they are almost identical.” The footprints, impressed into mud and silt along ancient rivers and ...

The newly released street names app from STNAMES LAB allows people to do that. Fed with OpenStreetMap data, it lets users carry out queries, as well as map and download streets containing certain ...

The newly released street names app from STNAMES LAB allows people to do that. Fed with OpenStreetMap data, it lets users carry out queries, as well as map and download streets containing certain ...