Is the Manticore a man-eating monster from Persian myth or simply a misidentified tiger? Featured in tabletop RPGs, card games, books, animated movies and shows, the manticore is a legend.

On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath that is the 2,900 km thick mantle layer. Then, enclosed within the mantle is the innermost metallic core of our planet. The mantle is ...

Lady’s mantle, or Alchemilla mollis, is a popular and resilient perennial that can be grown in various garden settings. From gravel gardens to woodland beds, lady's mantle can thrive alongside ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite ...

Mysterious zones in the deep mantle where earthquake waves slow to a crawl may actually be everywhere, new research finds. Scientists already knew that ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs), hover near ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed ...

The mantle, by contrast, was seen as little more than a thick layer of hot rock, with the occasional plume pushing its way through. Now, the team on this new effort reports that a lot more is ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...