Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Lavas from hotspots—whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland—likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in ...

Researchers uncovered footprints left by dinosaurs who could roam from Africa to South America when the continents were part ...

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

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

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

Inspired by the infundibulum and circumferential rim of the suckers of octopi, KAUST researchers have developed a way to ...