Back in the day (and by that, we mean around 230 million years ago), there used to be one big supercontinent called Pangea ...

India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated fragments of Pangea. This ocean is entirely gone today, although the ...

Scientists project that Earth's continents are slowly drifting towards each other and will merge to form a massive ...

Africa’s tectonic activity is slowly splitting the continent, potentially creating a new ocean in about 50 million years.

This geological conveyer belt continued in a slightly different form once the supercontinents were assembled: Ocean crust on the edges of Rodinia, and later Pangaea, subducted under the ...

A new study suggests Earth’s next supercontinent could trigger a mass extinction, making most of the land uninhabitable.

Extreme temperatures in future may potentially lead to the first mass extinction on Earth since the dinosaurs, a new study ...