Did you know that in about 200 million years, Earth is due for another supercontinent? What exactly that supercontinent will ...

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 ...

The global economic system, built on trade and shared rules for 30 years, is breaking apart. Learn about the rising risks and ...

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Pannotia occupies an awkward position in Earth science. It is described in textbooks and review papers, yet its outline ...

Long ago, all the continents were crammed together into one large land mass called Pangea. Pangea broke apart about 200 million years ago, its pieces drifting away on the tectonic plates — but not ...

Ever since the late 1990s, there's been one dominant theory for how Earth's enormous coal reserves were created: Coal is the fossilized carbon remains of plants that died hundreds of millions of years ...

Scientists in China have discovered fossils of a new mammal-like reptile species in Gansu province – the first of its genus to be found in both South Africa and China. The finding suggests that Late ...

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