When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.

Remarkably, the shorelines of Africa and South America reflect each other almost perfectly, an extraordinary discovery that ignited a wave of scientific inquiry. Long ago, these continents were joined ...

When we were flying over gopher holes, pumpjacks and coulees, there was no reason to believe this was going to be an airline that (would) fly over continents and oceans' ...

A new study finds ocean cycles disrupt synchronized global drought, reducing the risk of simultaneous crop failures worldwide.

Land plants began colonizing the continents and shaping Earth's surface environment much earlier than previously thought, a study led by Chinese scientists showed.

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single ...

A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, ...

Spanning oceans and continents on a quest for the biggest, fastest, and deadliest sharks. The hunt for monster fish continues.

The extreme heat, high winds, and severe dry conditions that produce towering, fast-moving flames that advance by the acre are not just becoming more common; new research shows that these factors are ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), in collaboration with international partners, have ...

In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...