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 ...

The world may have a new supercontinent within 200 million to 300 million years as the Pacific Ocean shrinks and closes. The world may have a new supercontinent within 200 million to 300 million years ...

The cast of NBC’s La Brea (streaming now on Peacock) inadvertently got pulled into an ancient world totally unlike our own when they fell through a time traveling sinkhole and into the past. For ...

Diamonds that formed deep below the Earth's surface are revealing the secrets of an ancient supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. A study of these "super-deep" diamonds has ...

Africa is slowly tearing apart, a process that could lead to a massive land collision creating mountains taller than the Himalayas. This geological shift, driven by mantle convection, will reshape ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Over the past 2 billion years, Earth's continents have collided ...

Zircons, a mineral nearly as old as Earth itself, is a time keeper, and also provides a chemical window into many geological phenomena, such as oxidation state. By determining the oxidation levels of ...

Deep diamonds from Collier-4 from the Juina area, Brazil. Washington, DC—Diamonds contain evidence of the mantle rocks that helped buoy and grow the ancient supercontinent Gondwana from below, ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks represents a gap of around a billion years of history. Among much debate ...

Contrary to expectations, ensconced within the young mountain range lie bits of a 1.8 billion-year-old supercontinent. G.S.