Imagine discovering a set of footprints on a remote beach, only to later find an identical set thousands of miles away. This ...

Hundreds of million of years ago our planet looked a whole lot different, as the continents we know today were still touching before significant continental drift. Now, researchers say ...

The discovery shows where land-dwelling dinosaurs were able to cross freely between South America and Africa before the two continents split ... the larger landmass of Pangea — once the world's ...

"The two continents were continuous along that narrow ... Gondwana is a former supercontinent that broke off from the landmass of Pangea about 180 million years ago. It included South America ...

Before Pangea, there was another supercontinent called Gondwana. This eventually collided with other big continents to form Pangea. As Gondwana broke up and disintegrated, a small continent was ...

For a time, Pangea was the only large land mass on the planet, before a large fissure grew ... Plate tectonics made those newly-formed continents shift and drift and form a rift, and continue ...

called Pangea, existed between about 300 million and 180 million years ago before beginning to break apart and shift slowly into continental structures that exist now. Researchers said the new ...

This will happen because at the edge of continents, sediments accumulate ... subduction begins on the eastern side of North America before the Pacific Basin closes? The margin next to California ...