For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The fossil vomit was found at the Bromacker site in central Germany, one of the few sites that preserves a fully terrestrial ...

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

Scientists found a jaw so bizarre they assumed it was broken - they were very wrong.

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Illustration: Márton Zsoldos Artist's impression of the land-dwelling crocodile Doratodon carcharidens. This is what the ...

"It's a really strange animal, and the weird twist in the jaw drove us crazy trying to figure it out." ...