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

Earth is not a static, unchanging ball of rock. Your day-to-day perception of the ground you stand on might suggest otherwise ...

In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.

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

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction – and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

Recent satellite data reveal that the Konya Basin in the Central Anatolian Plateau of Türkiye is continually being reshaped ...

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 new Australian coelacanth find has revealed a surprising force behind the slow evolution of these ‘living fossils’.

These two tectonic plates of geopolitics have long been moving in opposite directions. Several European NATO members have for decades skimped on defense spending, free-riding on US military might and ...