Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Researchers Find That a Mysterious Event Almost Wiped Out World's Entire Shark Population Analysis of certain shark fossils from the South and North Pacific has made researchers conclude that the ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate is breaking off horizontally with a tear progressively lengthening from Turkey to Iran.

In the Caspian Sea and neighbouring land masses, the mud most likely originates from the Eocene–Miocene Maykop formation, a rapidly deposited marine sequence that was incorporated into the ...

However, the Guneri mangroves are unique -- they grow on flat, dry land, far from seawater ... Experts suggest that these inland mangroves may have originated during the Miocene period, possibly ...