As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Not only can wind and water erode them from above, but the deepest layers can be removed from below, as is thought to have happened to the North China Craton during the age of dinosaurs. Until now, ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

In northeastern China, paleontologists have uncovered two previously unknown species of feathered theropod dinosaurs dating ...

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils.

Restoration images of Huadanosaurus sinensis (left) and Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis (right). Illustration: Courtesy of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

This is not the first time scientists have found evidence of cratons changing. A study published at the end of 2024 found ...