An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

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

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 ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The Prophet Aquatic Research and Outreach Center is taking a short road trip for this month's special Science Saturday, which ...