In a certain number of years, Earth's 5 continents (counted by convention, excluding Antarctica) will merge into one.

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

The Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, though at a pace so slow we rarely notice. But if we fast-forward 250 million years, the planet will look ... Continue Reading → ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

Australia’s Hamersley region uncovers a massive $5.7 trillion iron ore deposit, rewriting geology with its 1.4 ...

During that time, landmasses consolidated into a supercontinent called Rodinia and then broke apart again. Earth’s earliest forms of life, such as microbes, cyanobacteria, sponges and seafloor ...

You probably wouldn't recognize the Earth if you could see it 225 million years ago. Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent, called Pangaea. Perhaps initiated by heat ...

The image shows the warmest, average, monthly temperature (Celsius) for Earth, and the projected supercontinent (Pangea Ultima) in 250 million years, when it would be difficult for almost any ...