The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

In deep Earth, rocks take up and release water all the time, and the effects can be wide reaching. Dehydration can cause ...

It was a good week for space science, as a trio of Earth scientists at Monash University found evidence that Earth may have ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

A live recreation of the Ngamugawi wirngarri coelacanth in its natural habitat. Palaeoart illustration Katrina KennyClimate change and asteroids are ...

Recent satellite data has revealed an intriguing geological phenomenon happening beneath Turkiye. The analysis revealed that ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

A new discovery reveals that it evolved faster when plate tectonics were most active. Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Details of a 120-million-year-old tectonic plate once a quarter the size of the Pacific have been revealed long after the section of crust was largely subsumed into Earth's innards. Suzanna van de ...