A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...

In fact, scientists believe that a plume of hot rocks that burst from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago could be an important part in the story of human evolution. What roils beneath the ...

The typical mantle of the long-arm octopus only reaches ... Octopuses are cephalopods, a group of ocean-dwelling mollusks. They have the most complex brains of any invertebrates, but most ...