Scientists in Australia and China believe the ocean is shrinking by around one inch per year, gradually pushing the tectonic ...
known as the supercontinent cycle. This means that the current continents are due to come together again in a couple of hundred of million years' time. The international team of scientists led by ...
In 200 to 300 million years, Earth’s continents will merge into a massive supercontinent named Amasia, researchers have found. A study from Curtin University, published in the National Science ...
Earth has undergone a supercontinent cycle for billions of years, with landmasses colliding and separating roughly every 600 million years. Researchers used advanced supercomputer simulations to ...
Most of the world's landmasses came together to create the supercontinent of Gondwana, which included the continents of Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia. Gondwana drifted south ...
By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...