New research led by Flinders University argues thick tooth enamel helped kangaroos chart an unconventional evolution story, ...

A team of geologists and palaeontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years ago, there was a low-lying continent separating Europe from Asia that they have named Balkanatolia. At the time, it ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why "stable" parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's ...

Feb. 22 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a lost continent they call Balknatolia wedged between Europe, Africa and Asia that allowed mammals from Asia to colonize Europe earlier than once thought.

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about human history.

Schematic illustration showing the role of slab carbonatite melts on mantle redox states, sublithospheric diamond formation, and craton evolution under nonplume and plume scenarios. Credit: Science ...

A forgotten continent may have formed a bridge between Asia and Europe around 40 million years ago. Fossil records show the land once hosted distinct species like marsupials and hippo-like mammals.

Scientists have pieced together the remnants of a continent that broke off from western Australia 155 million years ago and seemingly vanished as it drifted northward toward Southeast Asia. When you ...

The newly found fossils in Morocco are altering current knowledge regarding the movement and evolution of dinosaurs. The ...

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...