Pangea split around 200 million years ago, and today we are looking for some incredible fossils from over 300 million years ...

Located 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) below today’s seabed, the wavy sediments were formed during the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

the last period before the age of dinosaurs. Plants such as this were used as evidence that continents were once connected, forming Pangea and its southern part, Gondwana. Possibly the most ...

I had hoped to arrive at the mountains before the ranger station ... five million years ago, the continents were smashed together into one giant landmass, Pangea, surrounded by a global ocean ...

Scientists predicted that all continents would merge into a supercontinent called Pangea Ultima, forming a doughnut-shaped ... the need for proactive measures to mitigate climate change before ...

Yet, many of us still wonder how long dinosaurs were on Earth before their dramatic end ... At this time, the landmass of Earth was one large continent called Pangea. A massive extinction event called ...

The phenomenon has happened before and is due to an active continental rift zone Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

How did the continents appear on Earth? This question, crucial for understanding the emergence of civilizations and life itself, remains one of the great mysteries of the early stages of planetary ...

I had been to most continents, like Europe, several times before, but it was my first time visiting Australia and Antarctica. During the year, I visited new-to-me countries like Vanuatu ...