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 ...

The human passion for gouging burnable stuff out of the earth and reducing it to ashes may well be the end of us. But it's not clear who the “us” is. Not you and me, obviously; we'll be lucky to see ...

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 Continental Drift Theory explains how Earth's continents slowly moved over time. This idea was first shared by Alfred Wegener in 1912. He believed that all continents were once joined together in ...

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 ...

Amsterdam, 24 February 2010 – Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that the data library PANGAEA - Publishing ...