Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents.

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as ... million years later, oceans filled yawning gaps between isolated continents shaped much ...

As the continents drift further ... what happened when the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart 200 million years ago, ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

On top of that, Wegener learned that related species, too small to swim the oceans ... that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek ...

At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea ... New oceans flooded the spaces in between. Mountains rose on the seafloor, pushing sea levels higher and onto the continents.

All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic ...

When we talk about submerged continents or lands, we refer to continental crust in our oceans. These landmasses ... Gondwana, Laurentia, Pangea, and Rodinia were supercontinents.

Pangea – the ancient supercontinent that once existed many millions of years ago when all the continents as we know them today were joined together – is the inspiration for Simone Faurschou’s new ...