A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

The cast of NBC’s La Brea (streaming now on Peacock) inadvertently got pulled into an ancient world totally unlike our own when they fell through a time traveling sinkhole and into the past. For ...

So the question is, why are all the continents bunching up? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or ...

Earth's mass extinctions have come for the dinosaurs and a whopping 95 percent of ocean species. Mammals, like us, may be next — eventually. In intriguing new research published in the science journal ...

Here's a fun fact: According to the United States Geological Survey, every single continent on the planet was once a single, comprehensive landmass known as Pangea. Pangea existed as it did for about ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; ...

Earth's continents are set to merge into a single landmass over the next 250 million years, an animation shows. The animation was posted Tuesday to Reddit, where it quickly gained over 3,500 comments ...

The outer layer of the Earth, the solid crust we walk on, is made up of broken pieces, much like the shell of a broken egg. These pieces, the tectontic plates, move around the planet at speeds of a ...