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 ...

Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents. Clues to answering humanity's most basic ...

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 ...

The ancient supercontinent of Rodinia turned inside out as the Earth swallowed its own ocean some 700 million years ago, new research suggests. Rodinia was a supercontinent that preceded the more ...

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Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.

The beaches of Mauritius surround the island like a foamy white trim and sprinkled in the sand are clues to a lost, submerged continent. Ancient zircon crystals harvested from sand samples were found ...

Ever wonder how old those rocks along the landscape or in your backyard are? Then join David Harper, geologist and author of "Roadside Geology of New Jersey" to get some amazing answers. He will ...

About 1.1 billion years ago, the oldest and most tectonically stable part of North America—called Laurentia—was rapidly heading south toward the equator. Laurentia eventually slammed into Earth's ...

The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, ...