One of the five greatest mass extinctions took place on Earth about 201.6 million years ago, when three-quarters ... that ...

Scientists say that the mantle is split up into two domains- the African and the Pacific that emerged when the supercontinent ...

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents.

A hotspot that is now located in the Atlantic played a key role in forming the lakes, home to a fifth of the world's fresh ...

Due to Earth’s shifting tectonic plates, this region was located near the equator over 200 million years ago on Laurasia, the northern half of Pangea (the southern half was called Gondwana).

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million years ago. 3 min read The start of ... all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Simulations of air temperatures on a hypothetical supercontinent forming in 200 million years ... extinction some 252 million years ago, coinciding with the formation of Pangea, killed some ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent ...

This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated. Laurasia, the northern half ...