Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 ...

Earth is not a static, unchanging ball of rock. Your day-to-day perception of the ground you stand on might suggest otherwise ...

Pamir Plateau, located in the southeastern region of Tajikistan, is one of Central Asia's most majestic plateaus. Renowned ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge ...

In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in ...

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 ...

Antarctica was ice-free 34 million years ago. Changes in carbon dioxide levels and tectonic shifts isolated the continent, ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...