The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

About 300 years have passed since anyone has known about Okinawa’s past climate and geological history. But researchers at ...

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

The Indonesian coast was struck by four earthquakes over the past 24 hours, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

This past spring, Swanson passed the milestone of having 50,000 students take the class from him over the years. It’s a number larger than the population of the British Columbia town he grew up in. He ...

In a groundbreaking observation, scientists have for the first time witnessed an undersea “slow slip” earthquake unzip in the Pacific Ocean. This event reveals that a tectonic plate is slowly breaking ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.