Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

The panoramic image is the result of two Hubble observation programs: the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT), which began about a decade ago and ... 2.5 million light-years from Earth ...

Even though this happened over a thousand years ago, the tree skeletons still stand because the now fiery orange desert is so dry that the trees couldn't decompose, reports the Express.

As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.

Deep within the remote canyons of Wollemi National Park, scientists uncovered a living fossil—a prehistoric tree once believed to have vanished millions of years ago. Thought to be extinct until its ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up ... Gondwana about 195 million years ago. Though Neotethys closed up more ...

Fossils identified as a new species after being discovered in Wyoming are estimated to be around 230 million years old.

A new study from the University of Houston could change the way we understand how lakes were formed.Aibing Li, a UH seismologist and co-author of the ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.