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The world is a smaller place these days, they say, as technology and the internet make it easier to travel and communicate between continents. However, in the future, it won't just be technology ...

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 ...

Before we discuss the modern-day destruction of this structure, we need to define Pangea. About 300 million years ago, the Earth was in one form of a supercontinent called Pangea. In other words, it ...

The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, ...

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 ...

Like the volcano planet Mustafar from Star Wars, half of the exoplanet 3844b could be covered in active volcanoes. This planet, discovered in 2019, could be the first world we know, outside the solar ...

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 ...

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 existence of the supercontinent Pangea, which formed about 300 million years ago and broke up about 200 million years ago, is a cornerstone of plate tectonics, and processes resulting in its ...