The Indian Ocean Geoid Low ranks as the largest negative "gravity hole" anomaly on Earth, which is why the “thumbprint” jumps ...

These landscapes' million-year-old geological history traces back to the time when these lands were buried underneath the Tethys Ocean. Filmed by Irina Sedunova, produced by Anna Bressanin, edited by ...

A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean — the ancient predecessor to the ...

Whale Valley, known locally as Wadi Al-Hitan, is a region of Egypt’s Western Desert renowned for its exceptional collection of ancient whale fossils. This site, which became a UNESCO World Heritage ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, China 2 Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, China National Nuclear Corporation ...

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 ...

Nature has a unique way of revealing the secrets of the past, stretching back billions of years. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Grevena-Kozani Geopark, a UNESCO-recognised cultural heritage ...

Turkey's Cappadocia is famous for its otherworldly landscapes, where naturally eroded rocky outcrops, fairy chimney houses and cave churches sit below a sky of colourful hot air balloons. But on the ...

Paleontologists in the United States have described a new genus and species of extinct crocodile relative based on a partially articulated skeleton found in the Middle Triassic Fossil Hill Member of ...

The deep sea is the most extensive region on Earth, covering 90% of the ocean floor. Modern deep-sea ecosystems have been barely explored, and their evolutionary origin is poorly understood. Since ...