The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.

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It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

Pink diamonds, as well as the world's largest diamond mine, may have formed during the breakup of a supercontinent known as Nuna, claims a newly published article in the scientific journal Nature ...

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time provides ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

Cats began their relationship with humans quite early, with evidence -- including a human buried with their cat in Cyprus -- ...