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 ...

Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared at outlets like Pacific Standard, VICE, National Geographic, the Paris Review Daily, and Real Life magazine. Her RTs = ...

CHAPEL HILL – In 1912, German meterorologist Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that first angered and then intrigued scientists and others ever since. Continents shifted around at far slower than a ...

An ancient supercontinent, far older than anything proposed before, has been pieced together by an international team of geologists. The giant landmass, which has been dubbed Columbia, would have ...

The study of supercontinents is exciting but also heatedly debated The concept of the supercontinent is one of the most important and heatedly debated subjects in geology. At the beginning of the ...

The next supercontinent, Amasia, may still be a few hundred million years away, but there have been three others in the past that can give an approximation of what it might look like. Mitchell et al., ...