The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...
Were all continents once snuggled together in a mammoth land mass surrounded ... Recent studies indicate that the earth’s magnetic field has reversed at least nine times in the past 3,600,000 ...
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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 ...
In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.
High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...
The hypothetical ring didn't last long, cosmically speaking – just a few tens of millions of years. But that was long enough ...
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.