The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ...

A huge, mysterious so-called “gravity hole” under the Indian Ocean might have been formed from the remnants of an ancient sea, according to a new study. Researchers recently offered the possible ...

Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised ...

Conspiracy theories on the internet attribute these fossils to everything from a 'great flood' to a prank of Gandalf monster.

Central Asia's rugged terrain was shaped by the ancient Tethys Ocean, not climate change or mantle flows, according to new research. This massive ocean's tectonic forces reactivated old fault lines, ...

A study published in Cretaceous Research expands the paleontological richness of continental fossils of the Lower Cretaceous with the discovery of a new water plant (charophytes), the species ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep inside the planet, hot rock began rising. Over time, this invisible force ...

In the context of the “Tethys one-way train” (long-term cyclical northward breakup-drifting of Gondwana continental fragments), increase in low-latitude continental area leads to the decrease in ...