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 ...

All mammals on Earth could be wiped out in 250 million years due to a volcanic supercontinent named Pangea Ultima, according to a new study. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, predicts that in ...

Did you know that in about 200 million years, Earth is due for another supercontinent? What exactly that supercontinent will ...

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 may ...

Earth’s continents are currently keeping a safe distance from one another, but what if they did slam together again, ...

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 ...

In Dante’s Peak, unexpected tectonic activity results in a massive volcanic eruption which threatens the lives and livelihoods of the people living nearby. It’s the perfect setting for a story in ...

Here's a fun fact: According to the United States Geological Survey, every single continent on the planet was once a single, comprehensive landmass known as Pangea. Pangea existed as it did for about ...

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This is how the western hemisphere of the Earth may have appeared 200 million years ago, with the supercontinent of Pangea stretching from pole to pole. New Curtin University-led research has found ...