For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

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 ...

Earth’s continents are not fixed in place. They drift, collide, and break apart over hundreds of millions of years, and new ...

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When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

During our month of “What Ifs,” we’ve gone from doubling Earth to halving the Sun to everyone trying to jump at the same time, and we’re wrapping things up back at ground level: What if the ...

About 66 million years ago, the reign of the reptiles came to a dramatic end as a huge asteroid slammed into Earth. Scientists have now predicted that mammals will meet their maker in a similar ...

UNDATED (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - According to a new study, the assembly of the next supercontinent will lead to the extinction of human and mammal life on Earth. Per the study, which was published ...

Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...

The next supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, is likely to get so hot so quickly that mammals cannot adapt, a new supercomputer simulation has forecast. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...