The land bridge created by mantle-driven uplift gave early primates and other animals opportunities to branch out.

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

Together, surface and deepwater currents form the “global conveyor belt,” which circulates seawater over a 1,000-year journey ...

“As ice volume was greatly reduced, it caused a huge motion in Earth’s crust,” Yuan said in a statement. “Scientists knew ...

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 ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, scientists are uncovering alarming evidence of tectonic movement that ...

Purple oceans would be possible on Earth if the levels of sulphur were high. This could be linked to intense volcanic activity and low oxygen content in the atmosphere, which would lead to the ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life return.

Life back then was confined to one cell organisms in the oceans. The continents were a barren landscape of grey ... This could be linked to intense volcanic activity and low oxygen content in the ...

Life back then was confined to one cell organisms in the oceans. The continents were a barren landscape of grey ... This could be linked to intense volcanic activity and low oxygen content in the ...