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

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

It's how mountains form, volcanoes erupt and continents drift apart. So, what causes the tectonic plates to move? Discover ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

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 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.

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

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