The way things are going today, the North American continent is heading toward Asia, and if nothing changes dramatically the two continents will fuse into a fifth supercontinent. Africa is already on its way to Europe, closing the last remnant of the Tethys that we know as the Mediterranean S...
Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy in one of the most popular versions, but there is also the potential for an ice age. In ...
scientists and scholars of our day, published “The Origins of Continents and Oceans,” in which he theorized that Earth’s continents move or drift relative to each other over long periods geologic time, and that the continents were once joined together in a large landmass “supercontinent.”So...
Planet Earth is home to 7.3 billion people and over 1.5 million different species of animals, insects, and plants spread across 7 continents. Earth was not always comprised of seven continents. A billion years ago, the world would have been much different being made of much more water than w...
Another period of extreme volcanic activity 201 million years ago marked the end-Triassic mass extinction. It has been linked to thebreakup of the Pangea supercontinentand the opening of the central Atlantic Ocean. Many land reptiles vanished as a result of that catastrophic event, making way for...
During the Archean era, volcanic eruptions were a common event. The dark solidified lava could then act as a perfect absorber of sunlight. Also, back then, the continents as we know them were not formed, and Earth was covered by a vast ocean and a hypothetical dark supercontinent. Now, yo...
“megadiverse” because of its biodiversity and concentration of endemic species. In layman terms, 80% of plants and animals in Madagascar cannot be found anywhere else in world. All of this snaps into place with theGondwana supercontinent: Madagascar lost contact with Africa (160 million years ...
This page will be updated throughout the event, so check back here regularly. Main Show –The 58th edition of the Venice Biennale is curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery, London. ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’, the title of this year’s main exhibition, is sup...
Continents formed, then broke up and reformed as the surface of Earth reshaped over hundreds of millions of years, occasionally combining to make a supercontinent. Roughly 750 million years ago, the earliest known supercontinent Rodinia, began to break apart. The continents later recombined to form...
the continents must once have been joined together, and somehow moved apart over many millions of years. He named this supercontinent Pangaea, and he called the idea of the continents moving “continental drift.” Wegener went on to discover that paleontologists had found matching fossil records ...