It wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

This distribution reflects the last two supercontinent ... forced beneath the continents in a process called subduction, occasionally dragging pieces of continental rock into the mantle.

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

During the Jurassic Period, the single land mass, Pangaea, split into two, creating Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. Despite this separation, similarities in their fossil records show ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart ... which could end in Madagascar being ripped into two islands – would take tens of millions of years.

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