Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known ...

Further, because these matching dinosaur footprints were found so far apart, they can help us pinpoint where the two continents in question—South America and Africa—connected back then.

A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in an area that once connected the two continents.

The tracks highlight how different Earth’s geography was in the Cretaceous. At the time, the ur-continents of Gondwana and Pangea had begun to move apart but were still within touching distance.

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous ...

Experts believe a giant mass of hot rock known as the North Atlantic Anomaly (NAA) is heading toward New York City. A new ...

A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the ...