Millions of years ago, a fiery plume rising from Earth’s mantle reshaped continents, closing ancient seas and lifting land that would forever change life on our planet. This upheaval forged a bridge ...

The activity beneath the Earth's surface is often undetectable to us, but it has the power to shape land masses and dictate climate patterns, ocean circulation, and even animal evolution. Scientists ...

A grieving family in Africa had just lost a young child, between two and three years old. Devastated, they laid the corpse in the fetal position and gently rested the child’s head on a cushion of ...

A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...