Scientists have uncovered that the continental divide between South America and Africa 135 million years ago unleashed 16 million cubic kilometers of magma, leaving behind massive volcanic rock ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the time, the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which stretched over North America as far south as Pennsylvania, started to recede ... “That story that we’ve been telling for a long, long time—that ...