This anomaly has long perplexed geologists, but researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, have now ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thirty-seven million years ago, in the waters of the prehistoric Tethys Ocean, a sinuous, 50-foot-long beast with ...

Areas near the coast were pummeled by seasonal monsoons, but ocean-circulation patterns kept the isolated and vast interior warm and dry. Even the Poles were ice-free. The Tethys Ocean filled the ...

India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated fragments of Pangea. This ocean is entirely gone today, although the ...

Homer claims Oceanus and Tethys, pictured in the lower half of this mosaic, were responsible for the birth of the gods, but Hesiod's version of the origins is generally accepted (see Gypsy Girl).

The team has discovered high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks, and unearthed crucial clues to advance understanding of the ancient Tethys Ocean, the supercontinents of Gondwana 2 ...