"We didn't lose a continent; it was just already a very extended and fragmented ensemble." A mysterious continent known as ...

Though researchers have been studying the animal deworming drug ivermectin for decades, there is no evidence that it's ...

Earlier study of the region had shown that the spreading in the area occurs at an average rate of a bit over 60 millimeters a ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

The first-known direct observations of a seafloor spreading event at a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean are presented in ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...