A team of geologists and palaeontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years ago, there was a low-lying continent separating Europe from Asia that they have named Balkanatolia. At the time, it ...

Feb. 22 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a lost continent they call Balknatolia wedged between Europe, Africa and Asia that allowed mammals from Asia to colonize Europe earlier than once thought.

The hidden chemistry of the Earth’s interior may play a far more dramatic role in shaping continents than previously imagined. According to a groundbreaking studypublished in Science Advances, ...

Scientists didn't expect to stumble upon the remains of a forgotten continent in the Balkans and Anatolia, a peninsula in western Asia. Instead, they were to hoping to solve a mystery: Fossils from ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why "stable" parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's ...

Schematic illustration showing the role of slab carbonatite melts on mantle redox states, sublithospheric diamond formation, and craton evolution under nonplume and plume scenarios. Credit: Science ...