Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

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

The person, nicknamed “Pink,” whose facial bones were found by scientists, is thought to have lived in ancient Iberia roughly one million years before Homo Sapiens inhabited the European continent ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...