When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

Earth could once again be dominated by a single continental mass in roughly 200 to 250 million years. The planet moves through natural cycles in which continents break apart and later reassemble, and ...

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The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

Earth's mass extinctions have come for the dinosaurs and a whopping 95 percent of ocean species. Mammals, like us, may be next — eventually. In intriguing new research published in the science journal ...

Before Pangea, Earth may have been dominated by a supercontinent called Pannotia. Once considered a key piece in the puzzle of our planet’s geological history, Pannotia’s existence is now being ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Over the past 2 billion years, Earth's continents have collided ...

How did complex life emerge and evolve on the Earth and what does this mean for finding life beyond Earth? This study holds the potential to help researchers better understand the criterion for ...

New study reveals that the Earth's mantle was not as hot when Pangaea began to break apart millions of years ago.

New finding contradicts previous assumptions about the role of mobile plate tectonics in the development of life on Earth. Moreover, the data suggests that 'when we're looking for exoplanets that ...