The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. However, a recent study is ...

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power their photosynthesis, which may be an evolutionary adaptation to a time when the oceans were iron-rich and green-tin ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

The long-ignored continent of Zealandia has now been mapped and officially recognized as Earth’s eighth continent. Stretching over 4.9 million square kilometers, most of Zealandia lies beneath the ...

The presence of deep earthquakes in the central Sierra is explained by the ability of cold continental lithosphere ... crucial role in the formation and evolution of continents. It allows for the ...

The goal of his research is to understand the volatile history and chemical evolution of Earth ... which control the redistribution of chemical constituents between the crust and mantle reservoirs. He ...

This reinterpretation challenges our standard teaching of how the continents evolved. Experts suspect that Iceland might hold fragments of submerged continental crust beneath thick, volcanic rock, ...

As the process continued, the descending oceanic plate functions like an anchor, dragging down the Earth's crust and forming ... altering the region's geological evolution. Researchers have ...