Applying a new statistical approach to primates demonstrates that this group-from which humans developed-originated 85 million years ago ... continents during the late Cretaceous (98-65 Mya ...

Tracks of near-identical dinosaur prints have been found across two continents, demonstrating how the dinosaurs that made them 120 million years ago were among the last to be able to complete ...

Earth's continents were formed when our planet was bombarded with giant meteorites around 3.5 billion years ago, a new study has ... for at least 500 million years. Some are over 2 billion ...

It started to break apart around 200 million years ago and eventually formed the continents and oceans we know today. Continents are in motion because heat from the radioactive processes within ...

Some 200 million ... years ago, a single, extraordinary supercontinent called Pangea dominated Earth. Ultimately, landmasses ruptured and pulled apart, creating the world we see today. Yet the ...

By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct collision and the Indian continent, because of its enormous quantity of light quartz-rich rocks, was unable to descend along with the rest ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era ... in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the ...

New modeling from researchers at Curtin University has simulated 300 million ... years ago. When Pangaea broke up, the Atlantic and Indian oceans ultimately formed as the slow rifting of ...

Earth is currently thought to be in the middle of a supercontinent cycle 1 as its present-day continents drift. The last supercontinent, Pangaea, broke apart about 200 million years ago.