A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

Dinosaurs likely originated in a locale that spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest regions, study suggests.

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

A new study conducted by a university in the United Kingdom, of Environmental Science, proposes that the earth has six ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

After analyzing "super-continent" structures deep inside the Earth, scientists believe they could be up to billions of years old.

Scientists have discovered a subtle, slow-moving creep in lab experiments that could hold the key to predicting catastrophic earthquakes before they strike.