The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Scientists explained that the Earth's continents are expected to merge into a supercontinent, Pangaea Ultima, in about 250 million years. Historical evidence suggests that the last supercontinent ...

A bleak new study from the University of Bristol has reported that humans will go extinct on Earth in 250 million years. The report, which uses Computer simulations, suggests our planet will face mass ...

Almost as soon as the supercontinent formed, it started to come undone. By the end of the period 199 million years ago, tectonic forces had slowly begun to split the supercontinent in two ...

Around 250 million years ago, all of the continents were joined together as one supercontinent called Pangea. Over time, this huge mass of land split apart due to continental drift, eventually ...

But once Gondwana took up its polar position in the late Ordovician, massive glaciers formed over Africa at the supercontinent's center. This heralded a 20-million-year ice age during which ...