The theory of plate tectonics was developed from the 1950s to the 1970s. It is the modern update tocontinental drift, an idea first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912, who that Earth’s continents had "drifted" across the planet over time. Wegener didn't have an explanation for...
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Emperor penguins move like cars in traffic jams to keep warm, that’s according to new research by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marina Research in Germany. A penguin only needs to move 2cm in any direction for its neighbor to do the same thing. These movement...
German meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener was the first person to formulate a complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis. Previous scientists had explained the separation of the modern world’s continents as having resulted from the subsidence, or sinking, of large portions of an...