Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Scientists have uncovered the incredible journey of the Inaccessible Island rail, the world's smallest flightless bird, ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

A fossil discovered in a rock on display at the Nariwa Museum of Art in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and pterosaurs.