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 ...

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

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

Zealandia is a geological outlier. It is by far the largest submerged continent and also the smallest recognized continent ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...