Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

When a new supercontinent forms, it could be enough to send temperatures rising even more steeply than they already are. So ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...

busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through ...

A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa ...