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 ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

New research from Adelaide University suggests the power of the ancient Tethys Ocean might have shaped Central Asia's topography during the Cretaceous period. Researchers made the discovery using a ...

The Mangystau region of western Kazakhstan is where the intrepid traveler can escape the beaten path for a few days.

Ancient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from Tibet, once the seafloor, reveal chemical signatures of these ...

Shallow trenching at the Vrela-Kremin trend returns 14 meters at 7.78% ZnEq within a broader interval of 27 meters at 4.63% ZnEq (T25MAR04), and 12 meters at 8.92% ZnEq within a broader interval 29 ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

Saturn leads the solar system with 274 moons. From Titan’s methane lakes to Enceladus’ geysers, explore the diverse worlds of ...

Imagine this: A snake-like creature, as long as a bus, glides through the sea–on the hunt. Sounds like a nightmare? Fortunately, it remains just that, as this animal is long extinct. Fossils of the ...

Contributed by Kea Giles, Managing Editor, GeologyBoulder, Colo., USA: Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's ...