The giant clam, known for its colorful cape-like mantle, wavy shell and astonishing size, is in danger of going extinct after ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Learn about the giant clam's new critically endangered status and the urgent efforts to protect this marine giant.

Giant clams are critically endangered, with populations down 80% due to overfishing and climate change. Conservationists are ...

“This study provides a first present-day example of how a cold downwelling from above is breaking up a deep mantle blob,” says Sanne Cottaar, a professor of global seismology at the University ...

The 14-year-old male monkey was first seen near Woodlands Road on Oct 31 by a member of the public, who called the Animal ...

SINGAPORE: Who let the monkey out? The Mandai Wildlife Group is trying to find that out as it reviews its safety protocols ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the ...

Geology textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those plates like a conveyor belt. But that idea, first set out some 100 years ...