For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

All kinds of animals use conspicuous colors. Research from biologists at the University of Arizona found it's a quirk of ...

This fault is likely a "scar" in Earth's crust, formed when Zealandia broke off from Antarctica and Australia about 150 million years ago becoming its own landmass. During this process ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end ... left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa ... the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic ...