The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted. Using the first-ever supercomputer climate ...

Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

This particular story takes place on the west coast of southern Pangea, specifically the region that would one day become the ...

The next supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, is likely to get so hot so quickly that mammals cannot adapt, a new supercomputer simulation has forecast. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Pangea Conundrum Date: August 23, 2008 Source: Geological Society of America Summary: The existence of the supercontinent Pangea, which formed about 300 million years ago and broke up about 200 ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth sheds new light on the formation of the East Coast of the United States—a "passive margin," in geologic terms ...

Earth may be in the midst of the greatest extinction ever, according to a new mass extinction scoring system. "The current extinction resembles none of the earlier ones, and may end up being the ...

Pretty wild, right? It’s a map of Pangea — a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago — mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders. What you see here is an anachronistic ...