Before Pangaea became a supercontinent, it existed as different continents. Three large continental plates came together to ...

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

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 ...

Gondwana, Laurentia, Pangea, and Rodinia were ... Argoland was a continent that purportedly split from northwestern Australia before drifting northwest toward Southeast Asia.

But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break up.

Continents are difficult to define because the Earth is often changing. Originally, about 300-200 million years ago, Earth contained one landmass known as Pangea, a supercontinent that eventually ...

Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming the collision ... the rate of collision between India and Tibet before the GPS measurements were made was the rate ...

This was many millions of years before the first modern humans ... and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called ...