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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; ...

Earth's mass extinctions have come for the dinosaurs and a whopping 95 percent of ocean species. Mammals, like us, may be next — eventually. In intriguing new research published in the science journal ...

Earth's continents are set to merge into a single landmass over the next 250 million years, an animation shows. The animation was posted Tuesday to Reddit, where it quickly gained over 3,500 comments ...

Up to 92% of Earth could be uninhabitable to mammals in 250 million years, researchers predict. The planet’s landmasses are expected to form a supercontinent, driving volcanism and increases to carbon ...

All mammals on Earth could be wiped out in 250 million years due to a volcanic supercontinent named Pangea Ultima, according to a new study. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, predicts that in ...

The continents as we know them resulted when the proto­continent Pangaea broke apart and its fragments made the long slow journey to their present positions. The process took about 200 m­illion years.

Here's a fun fact: According to the United States Geological Survey, every single continent on the planet was once a single, comprehensive landmass known as Pangea. Pangea existed as it did for about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. This is how the western hemisphere of the Earth may have appeared ...