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

Will any continent split in two one day? Yes. While how the Earth will look in millions of years can be hard to predict, ...

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.

As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

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

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

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

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

Pangaea, split into two, creating Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. Despite this separation, similarities in their fossil records show that there were some land connections between the ...

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 ...

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.

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea ... which can't sink into the Earth's dense mantle.