The Great Lakes formed where they did 20,000 years ago thanks to a hotspot that sat under the supercontinent Pangaea 300 million years ago, before North America even existed. New research finds ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The end-Permian extinction some 252 million years ago, coinciding with the formation of Pangea, killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent ...

The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.

The research revealed that the Cape Verde hotspot lay beneath the Great Lakes region since about 300 million years ago, when North America was part of Pangaea. As the tectonic plates moved ...