Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

When a new supercontinent forms, it could be enough to send temperatures rising even more steeply than they already are. So ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

Contrary to what you may intuit, the Earth's gravity isn't uniform, and there's one place where it's much weaker than anyone ...

You probably wouldn't recognize the Earth if you could see it 225 million years ago. Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent, called Pangaea. Perhaps initiated by heat ...

Australia’s Hamersley region uncovers a massive $5.7 trillion iron ore deposit, rewriting geology with its 1.4 ...

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...

A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa ...

busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through ...