Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded ...
Some 3.9 billion years ago, the entire planet was under water. The ground that emerged to become land was 12,000 meters down on the ocean floor. Then the continents rose, which scientists believed, up ...
The formation of Earth’s continents billions of years ago set the stage for life to thrive. But scientists disagree over how those land masses formed and if it was through geological processes we ...
In an extraordinary geological revelation, a lost continent has been discovered submerged beneath the Indian Ocean. This new finding reinvigorates the discourse surrounding the ancient supercontinent, ...
The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...