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 outer layer of the Earth, the solid crust we walk on, is made up of broken pieces, much like the shell of a broken egg. These pieces, the tectontic plates, move around the planet at speeds of a ...

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 ...

Millions of years ago, the Earth looked very different. A huge landmass, called Pangea, covered about a third of our planet.

Earth's mass extinctions have come for the dinosaurs and a whopping 95 percent of ocean species. Mammals, like us, may be next — eventually. In intriguing new research published in the science journal ...

This is how the western hemisphere of the Earth may have appeared 200 million years ago, with the supercontinent of Pangea stretching from pole to pole. In January 1912, the German meteorologist ...

The creation of Earth’s next supercontinent Pangea Ultima could lead to a mass extinction of mammalian life in 250 million years, and render the vast majority of our planet’s landmasses unfit for ...

A 130 million-year-old skull of an ancient animal that likely resembled a squirrel has shaken up the scientists' idea on when the supercontinent Pangaea likely split up, and suggests this break-up ...

New finding contradicts previous assumptions about the role of mobile plate tectonics in the development of life on Earth. Moreover, the data suggests that 'when we're looking for exoplanets that ...

This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant places share similar fossils, why mountain ranges line up across oceans, and why continents fit together like ...

The oceanic crust produced by the Earth today is significantly thinner than crust made 170 million years ago during the time of the supercontinent Pangea, according to researchers. The thinning is ...

For Earth Day 2014, NASA released this fresh image of our big blue marble. A world that can be perilous and filled with turmoil is the picture of tranquillity, when viewed from many miles away. What ...