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 ...

If the oceans suddenly vanished, the continents would still be separated by deep trenches and valleys left behind by the water. Instead of walking or driving to another continent, you'd have to ...

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 ...

Imagine placing Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, Australia and Antarctica into one huge basin and still having room to sail around. That’s essentially what a recent World in Maps illustration ...

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 ...

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

The health burden would probably fall unequally, with poorer countries suffering the highest rises in premature deaths linked ...