Ostriches, emus, rheas, and other giant flightless birds now inhabit six continents separated by oceans. Their global distribution has puzzled scientists for decades, as these massive ...

Scientists discovered that ostrich ancestors could fly across oceans. Later, they lost flight and adapted on land.

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

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The African continent is undergoing a geological transformation that, in the distant future, could create a new ocean. Researchers studying the East African Rift System have observed the tectonic ...

The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the ...

Cretaceous oceans sound the alarm about melting ice and the North Atlantic Current, vital for the European climate Ocean ...

There is a ravishing kind of beauty in Tommaso Santambrogio’s lyrical triptych of contemporary Cuban life, “Oceans Are the Real Continents.” With black and white cinematography that privileges an ...