An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Millions of years ago, the land you’re currently sitting on was located at a completely different latitude. Your backyard ...

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that ...

Utrecht University has launched Paleolatitude.org, a tool showing how any place on Earth has moved over the past 320 million ...

Extinct species Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs —‬ and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction Rivers & Oceans Colorado River may have pooled and spilled over to ...

Massachusetts drivers are reviving a piece of the state’s visual past, and doing it with surprising enthusiasm. The RMV’s “MA250” license plates, introduced to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the ...

New research from Adelaide University has revealed that geological processes dating back billions of years are critical to locating the rare earth elements needed for modern technologies and the ...

Off the coast of Vancouver Island, scientists have captured unusually sharp images of a tectonic plate that is breaking apart as it sinks beneath North America. They describe a slab drop of about five ...

This video reconstructs Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago when all modern continents were joined together. It explains how plate tectonics shaped the world map and ...