The animation, shared on Twitter by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, traces Earth’s history over the course of 540 million years, showing how the supercontinents broke apart.

Earth's continents are set to merge into a single landmass over the next 250 million years, an animation shows. The animation was posted Tuesday to Reddit, where it quickly gained over 3,500 ...

AN awe-inspiring new timelapse has revealed how scientists believe continents shifted over the past 100million years in “unprecedented” detail. The animation of the Earth’s surfac… ...

Continents on the Move A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into ...

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 is by no ...

Based on tracking data for about 150 species. Tracking devices have been used by scientists for a long time to study how animals move within local regions and migrate across oceans and continents.

The animated continents seem to deflate during summertimes, indicating times and places where vegetation is growing and plants are sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.