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Scientists discover Earth's inner core isn't just slowing down — it's also changing shapeThe surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.
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Romania's trovants: The bulbous 'living' rocks that inspired folkloric tales of dinosaur eggs and aliensTrovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired folklore of dinosaur eggs, plant fossils and alien creations.
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Ocean plate from time of Pangaea is now being torn apart under Iraq and IranWhat was once the floor of an ancient ocean is still shaping the landscape between Arabia and Eurasia.
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Earth's crust is peeling away under CaliforniaA section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how the continents were formed.
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Upheaval Dome: Utah's 'belly button' that has divided scientists since its discoveryUpheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists think it was created by an ancient meteor strike.
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Pamukkale: Turkey's 'cotton castle' of white limestone that inspired an ancient cultThe Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.
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The Bungle Bungles: Towering domes in the Australian outback that contain traces of the earliest life-forms on EarthThe Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater.
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Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be thereA new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.
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Scientists find hidden 'hotspot' that helped create the Great Lakes before North America even existedA hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did.
