Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

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

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

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 ...

These two tectonic plates of geopolitics have long been moving in opposite ... where they see more important and dangerous fault lines and sense tremors all around China. Illustration: Mountain People ...

In each illustration, the continent is divided ... “These Archean fragments are still controlling aspects of plate tectonics,” Ebinger says. “That early stage in Earth’s history is still ...

The culprit was not, of course, an eccentric German architect, but plate tectonics. The Mediterranean ... in the deepest parts of the sea. This illustration show how mammals, such as camelids ...

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