The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.

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 Gondwana supercontinent broke up millions of years ago. Now, researchers are piecing it back together again.

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...

About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this giant continent, called Pangaea, broke apart and ...

At that time, a vast ocean existed between Eurasia and Australia, which had been tethered to Antarctica as part of the supercontinent Pangaea. As Pangaea broke apart, the proposed Pontus plate ...

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.

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

Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the ...

Pangaea was surrounded by a vast ocean, Panthalassa, the surface of which would fluctuate between warm and cool periods over the years, much like the El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific today.