This article was originally published with the title “ The Confirmation of Continental Drift ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 218 No. 4 (April 1968), p. 52 doi:10.1038 ...

Although the calculations of Greenland's movement were found to be due to faulty determinations of longitude, the other evidence seemed to match up: the shape of the continents, fossil evidence ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

It was not until the 1960s that evidence of convection currents within the mantle was discovered to support the theory fully. This slideshow explains Wegener’s theory. What was the evidence for ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

It's difficult to imagine a process more gradual than continental drift. But some scientists ... According to some scientists, fossil evidence clearly shows a decline in the number of dinosaur ...

Continental Drift In 1912 Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had originated in the breakup of one supercontinent. His idea has not been widely accepted, hut new evidence suggests that the ...