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

It wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a supercontinent that we now call Pangea. Wegener had noticed that the borders of ...

Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made up of a small number of rigid plates separated by narrow boundaries. The surface of ...

Australian freelance illustrator Richard Morden has put together a whimsical and surprisingly accurate map of Pangaea, the massive supercontinent that dominated the Earth over 200 million years ago.

It’s hard to imagine a time when Antarctica was a stone’s throw from the Australian Outback, or when Morocco was right across the street from New York. But that was the world 300 million years ago, ...

Sumatra's catastrophic Dec. 26 earthquake flattened cities and shifted landscapes in seconds with the force of a million atom bombs. Within hours, ferocious waves had turned the Indian Ocean into a ...