About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica. This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke ...

Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously thought. A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since been widening at a rate of half an inch ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ecosystem of the region, as well as the way humans live. In the geologic ...

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Tens of millions of years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass, an ancient supercontinent called Gondwana. At some point, the two continents we now know started to pull away ...

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous ...

Do you know which continent is known as the 'New Continent'? Zealandia is known as the new continent, also considered the 8th ...

An international team of paleontologists has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents. An international team of researchers led by SMU ...

Earth scientists have uncovered a process where continents are gradually peeled from beneath, with slivers of continental material stripped from the roots and swept into the oceanic mantle. This ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country. One ...

A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in... Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart ...