Lakes are inland, standing bodies of water. There are six primary types of lakes: glacial lakes, tectonic lakes, volcanic lakes, oxbow lakes, solution lakes, and manmade lakes. While many of the ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays, a ...