The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure.

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...

"It points to a distinct and separate evolutionary path in planetary formation in the early history of our solar system." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Arctic was not simply a cold edge of the Cretaceous world, but a place where mammals adapted, diversified, migrated and ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs about how the planet’s first continents came into being. Researchers from ...

Saharan dust plumes are surging across the Atlantic toward Florida, choking moisture, dimming skies and throttling any ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

Scientists studying some of the oldest rocks on Earth have uncovered new evidence that the planet’s first continents may have started forming through plate tectonics as early as 3.5 billion years ago.

New isotopic evidence is rewriting the story of Earth's first continents. Imagine the planet nearly 3.8 billion years ago: a water world ringed by volcanic islands. How did solid continents arise in ...

“The growth of continents didn’t just reshape the surface of the Earth, it may have helped set the chemical conditions that made life possible in the first place.” The work, led by Dyck with Dr. Jon ...