Pangaea was a massive supercontinent that formed between 320 million and 195 million years ago. At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one surrounded by a single ocean ...
Earth’s continents are not fixed in place. They drift, collide, and break apart over hundreds of millions of years, and new ...
Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...
Hundreds of millions of years ago, long before humans existed on Earth, the land on the planet looked a lot different from what we see today. All the continents that we see now, Asia, Africa, Europe, ...
The next supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, is likely to get so hot so quickly that mammals cannot adapt, a new supercomputer simulation has forecast. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
A recent study has unveiled that Earth's mantle is divided into two distinct sections, a phenomenon linked to the formation and subsequent breakup of the ancient supercontinent Pangaea. This ...
The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted. Using the first-ever supercomputer climate models of ...
Recently, my team reported unprecedented evidence of a continental connection between the ancient landmasses Laurentia (North America) and Iberia (the northern margin of Gondwana) in the Late ...