There were other clues as well; matching rocks and fossils were found in countries separated by the Atlantic and Indian ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already forming a sixth ocean in East Africa.

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.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

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 ...

But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break up.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic periods, Pangea began to break up, eventually forming the continents we ... gather new data from the oceans. There is so much more ...

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 ...