Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...

The Atlantic Ocean was formed by the dramatic break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, splintering our planet into drifting ...

New scans of two fossils cared for by the Natural History Museum are already breaking new ground. A team of scientists led by ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Imagine a world where the Americas were not connected—a time when wild Pacific waters crashed against scattered islands, and ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

This layer also contains Earth's oceanic crust — a thinner and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above this layer. But how these sublayers manage to exist in this ...

"What's happening under the Sierra Nevada could offer rare insight into how the continents formed ... a thinner and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above ...