At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up ... Yang and his colleagues found that during the late Permian and early Triassic, the climate became a bit drier in what is ...

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

The next supercontinent will be known as Pangea Ultima, also referred to as Pangea Proxima, with an approximate time frame of coming to fruition in the next 250 million years.