Millions of years ago, the continents were all bunched together in a landmass named Pangea. Millions of years from now, ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

The Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

The basins that flooded in the final rifting of South America and Africa were rich in carbon, and the birth of the ocean would have made the sequestering of carbon less efficient. This reduced ...

According to a study conducted by the University of Bonn, droughts caused the land in Germany to rise by six millimeters ...

Europe and Africa are to the east. As with the Pacific, the Equator splits the Atlantic Ocean into two parts ... I also have another cold part at my bottom - I mean, my most southerly point ...

Upon becoming dormant, the phytoplankton cells sink to the bottom of the ocean, where they're gradually buried under accumulating layers of sediment. These latest specimens were extracted from ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...