It wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent ...

the widely accepted theory was that they emerged in the southern part of the ancient continent of Pangea over 200 million years ago, and only spread northward millions of years later. A new study ...

Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent, called Pangaea. Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart ...

Over millions of years, tectonic plates moved and broke Pangea up into the continents we know today, but they're still moving. Tectonic movement causes things like earthquakes and volcanoes.

But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break up.

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

Around 200 million years ago, Earth's last supercontinent Pangea began to break apart, with plate tectonics slowly moving the continents into the world we recognize today. Plate tectonics was only ...