Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

The prehistoric vegetable creatures of Cheeky Little Media's Ginger and the Vegesaurs will be let loose in the US, after PBS ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Learn why drastic drops in temperature sent European hunter-gathers in search of a warmer place to live.

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Full Caption at ...

In the current age, we have seen massive bears, including the largest bear ever caught in the U.S., which outsized the average elephant. Indeed, the biggest bear recorded in modern times was an ...