The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica. This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ecosystem of the region, as well as the way humans live. In the geologic ...

Imprinted in the sediment along ancient rivers and lakes, the dinosaur footprints were roughly the same age and shape and shared certain geological features. The scientists found signs in both the ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country. One ...

Dinosaur fossils that appear to belong to the same species have been found on different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. It raises the question - how did they get there? For ...