Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

According to research published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, the gradual uplift of a vast region that now includes the Arabian Peninsula and Anatolia created a land bridge between Asia and ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate ...

Earth’s crust is divided into huge ... The most recent evidence suggests that it persisted in some form until about 20 million years ago. A decade ago, researchers at Utrecht University proposed ...

April 22 is the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. Just five years ago, our planet’s environment ... of this recognition – with millions (20 million in the U.S. alone – 10 per cent of the ...

The fossil record of freshwater crayfish is surprisingly sparse, comprising mostly trace fossils, some body fossils and rarely gastroliths. Paleontologists from Flinders University, the University of ...

Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south on Earth. In fact, what is now Victoria was once within the polar circle ...

Vera Korasidis is currently an ARC DECRA Fellow. Initial funding for this research (1983/1984) was provided by BHP Group Limited (granted to Ray Cas and Larry Frakes, respectively). Funding for ...

Their footprints, found in coastal areas as well as inland environments, confirm that these creatures not only ruled the skies but also lived on the ground, sharing space with dinosaurs up until the ...