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

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

Yet even those most stable regions aren’t completely permanent. 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 ...

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

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

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

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

They have elaborated on the geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, but a more seminal contribution is their study on the North China Craton, the large block of the Earth’s crust forming ...

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, ...