The Marathon Uplift in southwest Texas is a striking window into Earth's deep past, exposing deformed Paleozoic rocks shaped by the Ouachita orogeny. Spanning from the Late Cambrian to the Late ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

New research from China, the U.S., and the U.K. is reshaping timelines for life’s evolution, with fossils revealing complex animals before the Cambrian explosion and dinosaurs emerging 10 million ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied ...