A massive eruption of magma around 135 million years ago may have been the driving force behind the tectonic rift that split ...

New research has revealed what could have led to the splitting of two major continents, as evidence from the event can still ...

Since the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea during the late Paleozoic, plate movements have been primarily organized into ...

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated. Laurasia, the northern half, broke up into North America and Eurasia. Gondwana, the southern half ...

MANY OF THE world’s richest deposits of iron ore and copper predate the breakup of the last supercontinent, Pangaea, around 200m years ago. Tectonic shifts subsequently scattered the global ...