Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

A new study finds tree planting alone can't offset carbon from fossil fuel reserves, highlighting the financial and physical ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

(pensive music) - Scientists agree that Earth has seen five mass extinction events in its history, with the end Permian being the worst. Some believe we could be on the cusp of a sixth today.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has seen a reverse shift in land mass after decades of melting. ... missions, which measure changes in Earth’s gravity field to track ice mass fluctuations.

Earth’s largest mass extinction, often referred to as the “Great Dying,” occurred about 252 million years ago. Massive volcanic eruptions triggered catastrophic climate changes that altered ...