New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

The Earth as we know it today is the result of billions of years of geological activity, where continents have shifted, ...

A massive landmass called Zealandia was submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, and geologists took up the task to map the unknown region.

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...

ABSTRACT: The so-called “typical” values for the Earth’s topography are often used in the literature, such as the mean continental altitude (MCA), the Moho depth for “normal” continental crust, or ...

At the center of this discovery is the Chugwater Formation in the Bighorn Basin, an oval-shaped lowland bordered by six mountain ranges. The basin spans 150 miles across parts of Montana and ...

This process would continue unabated until the modern-day with the formation of the modern continents and the Atlantic and Indian oceans as a consequence of this event.. Pangea’s existence was ...

Extraordinary heat from a future supercontinent formation could lead to a mass ... monthly temperature (Celsius) for Earth, and the projected supercontinent (Pangea Ultima) in 250 ...

Although Pangaea Ultima remains hundreds of millions of years away, the forces driving its formation are already in motion. Tectonic plates continue to shift beneath our feet. Greenhouse gases are ...

Why Mammals Might Not Survive. Mammals rely on evaporative cooling—sweating or panting—to regulate body temperature.However, in Pangaea Ultima, humidity levels will be so high that sweat won’t ...

At first, the team didn’t think a hotspot was involved. But as they looked closer, Li said plate movement made it clear that the Cape Verde hotspot had once sat under where the modern-day Great Lakes ...

A new study reveals that Earth's mantle is divided by the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geological scar reflecting the formation and breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea.