Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of Earth 200 million years ago as Pangaea, the last supercontinent, began to break apart. The continents we live ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

Earth’s continents are not fixed in place. They drift, collide, and break apart over hundreds of millions of years, and new research suggests the next great reunion could create conditions so extreme ...