Earth only has so much space. Over time, the continents have merged and divided on countless occasions. Accordingly, over the past 4.5 billion years, our globe has changed pretty dramatically—and it ...

The world that brings two continents face to face is changing. Only 2 countries will survive. Content full of ambitious ...

TOWN OF RAMAPO, N.Y- a billion years ago, or so the prevailing geological theory has it, the Earth’s continental plates collided, pushing up mountains the height of the Himalayas and creating a ...

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EARTH may have had huge continents that “melted away” billions of years before our current continents existed. The so-called “lost continents” are said to have risen up out of the sea before being ...

Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests. Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 ...

Land on Earth was once gathered together in a supercontinent known as Rodinia, shown here as it was during its break-up 750 million years ago. Now scientists believe they have found a fragment of it ...

The break-up of ancient land masses plunged the Earth into a freezing white hell that lasted millions of years, U.S. and French researchers suggest. This created 'snowball Earth', where ice sheets ...

Some 85 million years ago, a small landmass was sandwiched somewhere between what are now India and Madagascar. This ancient continent — Mauritia — was long the stuff of near legend, with geologists ...

Land on Earth was once gathered together in a supercontinent known as Rodinia, shown here as it was during its break-up 750 million years ago. Now scientists believe they have found a fragment of it ...