Volunteer fossil hunters and trained paleontologists uncover a new Australian dinosaur and the oldest known megaraptorid.

Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

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

The first dinosaurs could have emerged on the Gondwana supercontinent millions of years before today's oldest-known dinosaurs, researchers from University College London write in a new study published ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

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

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

Before Plate Tectonics arrived and different collisions occurred, Pangea a supercontinent existed ... oceanic lithosphere to 200 km or more for ancient continental lithosphere, such as the ...

By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved in the dry savannahs and hot deserts of the ancient supercontinent ...