When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient ... a single supercontinent, called “Gondwanaland ...

Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

Genetic analysis suggests that the two lineages diverged between 31 and 34 million years ago—long after the breakup of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. That means the iguanas didn’t walk ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

Scientists have just discovered the remnants of an ancient continent deep beneath the surface of ... from what was once the landmass known as Gondwana, a subsection of the supercontinent Pangea. About ...

The vanished ocean at the heart of this book formed a little over 250 million years ago as the last supercontinent ... were united in a single unit consisting of two halves – Gondwanaland in the ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

The process starts slowly at first, with the formation of Laurasia and Gondwanaland as continents ... by extension, the ancient supercontinent. Called the mid-ocean ridges, these are enormous ...