The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just a byproduct of the tectonic plates beneath our feet.

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Floods? Let’s wait until the next one. Hill towns disappear? Never mind, let the construction continue. Drought? What are water tankers for? In the face of such ...

Salameh, E. and Tarawneh, A. (2026) Tectonic Structures and Their Consequential Nontectonic Deformations —The Case of the ...

For most of us, Antarctica is a frozen white desert that is mysterious, remote and almost unfathomably cold. However, a ...

The scheme — reminiscent of "Catch Me If You Can," the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio — lasted four years, U.S. prosecutors ...

Far beneath the creaking surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, scientists have uncovered a granite body roughly 60 miles ...

Construction crews have helped excavate the first fossils in Dinosaur National Monument in more than 100 years. The bones, which belonged to a massive sauropod, were discovered during work on a ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried beneath kilometers of ice. That unseen landscape is now coming into focus.

For decades, scientists have repeated some variations of a striking statistic: we know more about the topography of Mars and Mercury than we do about the ground beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. It’s ...

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