High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface lie fragments of ancient continents—landmasses that once rose above the waves, now buried in ...

To fix what he sees wrong in Europe, President Donald Trump has prescribed the continent’s ancient and most lethal poison — ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

To fix what he sees wrong in Europe, President Donald Trump has prescribed the continent’s ancient and most lethal poison — nationalism.

NEW DELHI: Earth scientists have uncovered a process where continents are gradually peeled from beneath, with slivers of continental material stripped from the roots and swept into the oceanic mantle.

A new study reveals how fragments of continental roots are stripped and transported beneath the oceans, solving a long-standing geological puzzle about volcanic islands far from tectonic boundaries.

Have you ever thought about the seven continents that make up our world? From Asia, the largest and most populous, to the icy expanse of Antarctica, each landmass is unique. We have Africa, often ...