The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

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Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.

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 ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two giant plumes of hot rock deep within the earth are linked to the plate motions that shape the continents, researchers have found. The two superplumes, one beneath Hawaii and the ...

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time provides ...