Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that still stitch the continents together. From identical mountain belts to ...

It's hard to imagine all of the world's land masses together as one supercontinent. Over 200 million years ago, however, that's what Earth looked like. The breakup of Pangea was essentially the first ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

Back when Pangaea was the only continent around, a vast ocean covered the rest of the planet. Now, researchers have found the remains of a large arc of islands that once divided this enormous body of ...