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 ...

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 ...