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 ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller, or minor ...

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 ...

Geology. The presence of oceans, continents and plate tectonics on Earth is most likely the reason there is no evidence for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, according to new research by ...

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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.

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 ...

Pangaea began to break apart about 175 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era due to the movement of tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface. (Illustration by Tatiana Lozano / Washington ...