Central Asia's rugged terrain was shaped by the ancient Tethys Ocean, not climate change or mantle flows, according to new ...

The study by the University of Adelaide has found that an ocean completely closed up 100 million years ago and triggered the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was a tropical greenhouse. Today, it's an ice-capped world. And an international team of ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

AN EXTINCT creature has been found trapped into amber after nearly 40 million years. The doomed animal – which came from a legendary poet’s private collection – is so perfectly preserved ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today ...

Researchers have uncovered three long-extinct creatures preserved within fossilised tree resin that once belonged to the ...

New research reveals that Central Asia’s rugged terrain was molded by the vanished Tethys Ocean, millions of years before the Himalayas even rose.

Scientists solve a climate mystery that drove Earth’s transition from a warm greenhouse planet to today’s ice-covered world.