Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

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A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of Taiwan in 2010 looked human, but for years scientists failed to nail down exactly ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...

During this time, Earth's crust began to break apart, initiating a period of rifting and seafloor spreading. According to researchers, this portion of continental crust, about 19-24 kilometres ...