Earth’s tallest waterfall isn’t on land—it’s hidden beneath the ocean between Iceland and Greenland, silently shaping global ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups ...

Despite being almost entirely underwater, Zealandia meets all the geological criteria to be classified as a continent.

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

Long ago, all the continents were joined as one supercontinent called Pangaea. Over millions of years, tectonic ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Scientists have found a chain of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, which are situated in the sea between French Polynesia and American Samoa — a beautiful forgotten territory of the United ...

It will lead to more purple, brown, or green hues in coastal or stratified areas, with less deep blue color in water as ...