University of Southampton Researchers from Germany and Birmingham also contributed to the study The research showed that, when continents split apart, the stretching of the continental crust ...

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents.

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents.

Did you know that continents are still moving and that in a few hundred million years, Earth will look very different?

Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy ... The concept of continents drifting apart isn’t new. Fossils, like those of Cynognathus—a wolf-sized reptile found ...

Across the Earth there are traces of a mysterious land - a supercontinent that split apart to create our world. This is the story of how life, land and time came together to create the diversity of ...