A hypnotic new animation has revealed the journey of the continents over 540 million years, as huge landmasses drifted around the globe before settling into the positions we know today. The animation, ...
Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why. If you were to arrive in our solar system never ...
AN ONLINE map shows where your house would have stood hundreds of millions of years ago. Crafted by California scientist Ian Webster, the interactive tool reveals how far your hometown has moved due ...
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Earth’s hidden eighth continent is finally charted
Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...
Earth had ‘lost continents’ that melted away billions of years before the land we know today existed
EARTH may have had huge continents that "melted away" billions of years before our current continents existed. The so-called "lost continents" are said to have risen up out of the sea before being ...
Geologists have long debated when continents first formed. A new model suggests they took shape half a billion years earlier than thought, during our planet’s turbulent childhood — which could mean ...
The vast, spiralling arms of our Milky Way galaxy could have helped form the continents that we live on today, according to a new study. The Earth’s continental crusts appear to undergo periods of ...
Earth's continents were formed when our planet was bombarded with giant meteorites around 3.5 billion years ago, a new study has found. Researchers from Curtin University in Perth, Australia analysed ...
EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...
The first continents emerged from the Earth’s oceans over 700 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study that sheds more light on the evolution of the planet’s ...
Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic volcanism and plate tectonics, explaining why some islands contain so much continental material despite their distance from continental plates.
The formation of a sixth ocean, and the tectonic shifts that lie ahead, are proof that Earth is a dynamic, ever-evolving planet. Although these events occurred over millions of years, they remind us ...
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