Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

It’s 100 times the size of Yellowstone, almost entirely covered by ice and is home to the ‘Iceberg Graveyard’ Where is ...

Not far beneath the waters of the Pacific Ocean lies a massive piece of continental crust known as Zealandia. Stretching ...

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, ...

Why is Australia part of the world’s most overlooked region? Or is it a continent? From the hidden landmass of Zealandia to ...

This lost ecosystem is known today from the famous St Bathans fossil deposits, which preserve one of the world’s richest records of the Miocene and offer a rare window into Aotearoa’s warmer, more ...

Narrators of great events tend to write grand prose. But a casual tone goes over better with a lecture-hall audience. Walter A. McDougall has taught a course in modern European history at the ...

The each of the five Olympic rings represent a different continent. Thought the U.S. teaches there are seven continents, the Olympics use the five-continent model. Each ring's color is associated with ...

Today we look at an expedition to Antarctica. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Though East Africa used to be more of a savanna than a desert, it has dried out over the millennia. With less water in the lakes, especially Lake ...