Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting continents that have long since disappeared. These maps, coupled with modern ...

A low-lying continent that existed some 40 million years ago and was home to exotic fauna may have "paved the way" for Asian mammals to colonize southern Europe, new research suggests. Wedged between ...

A study led by geoscientists at the University of Sydney has revealed why some ancient continental edges became fertile sites ...

Three main processes are known to generate the thick, stable, ancient rock that forms the roots of a continent, according to geologists. Diving of one tectonic plate beneath the other (which ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

New research led by Curtin University and QUT (Queensland University of Technology) has revealed that repeated asteroid ...