Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

Outline diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. (b) Schematic diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. A pioneering study published in Geoscience—a premier journal ...

This groundbreaking research offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Earth’s tectonic evolution from 1.8 Ga to the present, bridging critical gaps in pre-Pangean plate dynamics. By merging three ...

The Afar region in northeastern Africa represents one of the few locations on Earth where a new ocean may be forming over the next several million years. Situated at a unique triple junction where the ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

An exceptionally well-preserved skull from a fish which lived 384–382 million years ago helps explain how plate tectonics played a key role in the evolution of ancient bony fish which eventually led ...

New research from Adelaide University has revealed that geological processes dating back billions of years are critical to ...

1. A lithospheric-thickening model for the Indo-Asian collision / Gregory Houseman and Philip England -- 2. Neotectonics of Asia: thin-shell finite-element models with faults / Xianghong Kong and ...

Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate ...