Earth has had more continents than the ones we see today—some have completely disappeared! These lost continents, like Zealandia and Greater Adria, either sank beneath the ocean or got crushed ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists ...

The findings not only revise the age of the continent but also deepen our understanding of Earth’s early crustal formation. The idea of a “lost continent” may sound like legend, but ...

But new research published on March 28 in Nature Geoscience suggests that a long-lost geological ... the oldest cores of continents, so they have been sitting near the Earth’s surface for ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales -- a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists ...

Often overlooked in narratives of ancient civilizations, the archaeological site of Cahokia in the Mississippi River Valley ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment ... During this time, Earth's crust began to break apart, initiating a period of rifting and ...

The Yonaguni monument continues to spark debate over its origins, with some convinced it’s a sunken relic of an ancient ...

Observations of exoplanets typically provide astronomers little more than an orbit, a mass and a radius. If the radius and ...