Scientists have uncovered the mesmerizing phenomenon of ‘fountains of diamonds’ bursting forth from deep within the Earth’s ...

"We could end up with six or seven supercontinent cycles throughout Earth's history," Davies explained, noting the planet may have already had four or five supercontinents. Nance suspects ...

At temperatures below minus 10 degrees Celsius, the wind would quite literally smash your skin and bones to die in a process ...

Supercontinents breaking up could send them spewing up from deep within the Earth’s core, according to research undertaken by Thomas Gernon, who is a professor of Earth and climate science at ...

In the figure can be seen the possible paleogeographic locations of the terranes in the Tibetan Plateau and environs. Ind=India; Au=Australia; Ant=Antarctic; Kal=Kalahari; SF=San Francisco; Con ...

The farside of the Moon is a mysterious place that is never visible from the Earth. The most remarkable feature of the Moon ...

The breakup of ancient supercontinents would have had major effects on the evolution of living organisms. Does it explain the difference in the diversification of reptiles and mammals?

Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided, forcing molten rock out from the ...

The continents primarily consist of cratons and orogenic belts, of which cratons predominantly originated 1.8 billion years ago, serving as crucial constituents of the Earth’s surface. Most of the ...

C’est le cas typiquement de l’Eurasie actuelle. Il semblerait que les supercontinents se forment par cycles, se rassemblant et se fragmentant par le jeu de la tectonique des plaques tous les 400 à 500 ...

This year, palaeontologists from the Museum will fly out to Wyoming, USA, to join a team excavating a rich Jurassic dinosaur bone bed in the extraordinary Morrison Formation. It is hoped that the ...