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

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

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 ...

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.

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, ...

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

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The study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the dichotomy might be due to internal heat ...

Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.