Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that still stitch the continents together. From identical mountain belts to ...

The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted. Using the first-ever supercomputer climate models of ...

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 ...

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 ...