Greenland, the world’s largest island, is shrinking and shape-shifting. Since the peak of the last Ice Age about 20,000 years ...

In this geological time frame, multicellular animals ... In prehistoric animals, plate tectonic activity has been tied to faster rates of evolution, probably because geological movements split up ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

LSU geologist Brandon Shuck led a study that discovered a tear in a tectonic plate off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep inside the Earth's mantle. These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates, far from ...

Port Blair, The Geological Survey of India will send a team to the Baratang Island to investigate the recent eruption of India's only active mud volcano, a senior official said on Sunday.