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

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent ...

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history.

Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent, called Pangaea. Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.