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

Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like ...

What was the evidence for Wegener’s theory? The match in shape between the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa suggests both were once part of a single continent (meaning ...

THE author is to be congratulated upon a brave project, the writing of a geological history of the earth in terms of continental drift ... named after South America, South Africa and Australia.

Fossils, like those of Cynognathus—a wolf-sized reptile found in both Africa and South America—suggest that these continents were once joined before continental drift separated them.

northern Nova Scotia is part of a micro-continent (Avaland) that was sandwiched during continental collision between North America and a part of Gondwana southern ... argued that the unit is a ...

You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa into Australia. If you want to try that today, you'd better buy some fins—you're in for the swim of a lifetime.