Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge ...

Pamir Plateau, located in the southeastern region of Tajikistan, is one of Central Asia's most majestic plateaus. Renowned ...

In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a 120-million-year-old section of Earth’s crust in Borneo that had long been considered ...

Watch how Earth looked like 1.8 billion years ago; witness its journey from then to now: The video also revisits the so-called ‘boring billion’ period, spanning from 1.8 billion to 0.8 billion years ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...