The 'Boring Billion' – a period in Earth's history between 1.8 billion and 850 million years ago – wasn't so boring after all, scientists reveal. In fact, the billion-year period paved the way for ...

The Earth-Boring Dung Beetle in Animal Crossing New Horizons is a newcomer. We’ve never seen it pop up in the series before, and so chances are you’ll be wondering just how to catch it, when it shows ...

Relative plate motions and plate boundary geometries are from Cao et al. (2024), with plate motions placed in a mantle reference frame. Continents are light grey, with continental margins shown in ...

(CN) — More than a billion years ago, tectonic activity on Earth may have stopped so completely that no new mountains could be formed on the planet for an entire eon — putting evolution of life on ...