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 ...

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

People’s deep connection with the ocean – their “marine identity” – can help us reset society’s relationship with the seas, ...

Our new study reveals that the oceans rapidly heated up all across the world’s low and mid latitudes. Normally, it gets ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

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

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

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

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

Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 ...

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 ...