Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

A new study claims that the origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than previously believed. The supercontinent of Gondwana had bees before it broke apart into Africa and South America. A ...

Diamonds contain evidence of the mantle rocks that helped buoy and grow the ancient supercontinent Gondwana from below, according to new research. These findings demonstrate that superdeep diamonds ...

Project seeks to protect ancient tree lineages that have survived from a time before Earth’s continents broke apart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Researchers mapped out "cake-like" fossil layers belonging to a group of ancient marine creatures from the supercontinent Gondwana that mysteriously died off 390 million years ago. When you purchase ...

Pangaea was a massive supercontinent that formed between 320 million and 195 million years ago. At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one surrounded by a single ocean ...