Pangaea was a massive supercontinent that formed between 320 million and 195 million years ago. At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one surrounded by a single ocean ...

The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

Recently, my team reported unprecedented evidence of a continental connection between the ancient landmasses Laurentia (North America) and Iberia (the northern margin of Gondwana) in the Late ...

Only 70 years ago most scientists thought the Earth's continents were fixed in position from the start of time. As geologists studied the Earth's rocks further and palaeontologists considered the ...

The Gondwana supercontinent underwent a 60-degree rotation across Earth's surface during the Early Cambrian period, according to new evidence uncovered by a team of geologists. The study has ...

An ancient reptile the size of a gecko with 'large, blunt, tusk-like teeth' lived on the southern supercontinent Gondwana 237 million years ago, a new study reveals. Fossilised jaws and skull bones ...

Long before humans and their ancestors were born, the continents of today, South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica, were one giant supercontinent called Gondwana. The educational ...

Researchers believe this model can help us better understand how life evolved on Earth A GROUNDBREAKING new model has shown how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion ...

More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the equator in what is now Wyoming. That small but mighty dinosaur is changing ...

New Haven, Conn.—The Gondwana supercontinent underwent a 60-degree rotation across Earth's surface during the Early Cambrian period, according to new evidence uncovered by a team of Yale University ...