scientists will be able to take a more detailed look at how landmasses formed and changed over the past 100 million years. Being able to use this model to create such detailed animations of Earth ...

Rodinia, in turn, is formed by the break-up of an even older supercontinent called Nuna about 1.35 billion years ago. Among ...

New "unprecedented" animations of the Earth show how the planet's surface ... the large rafts of crust that bump up against each other to form mountain ranges and pull apart to form ocean basins.

However, Earth’s tectonic plates are still in motion, and scientists believe that the next supercontinent is likely to form as the plates continue to drift and shift. Research into plate ...

Around 200 million years ago, Earth's last supercontinent Pangea began ... As the next supercontinent forms, the ocean basins will form one massive body of water. This body of water will have ...

This has enabled us to make an attempt at mapping the planet over the last 40 percent of its history, which you can see in the animation ... walked the earth, Gondwana linked with North America, ...

New research has now reconstructed and animated the Earth's plate tectonics for the past 1.8 billion ... It goes backwards in time, as India and parts of Southeast Asia move south to form the ancient ...

Earth's continents are set to merge into a single landmass over the next 250 million years, an animation shows ... 200 million years ago and eventually formed the continents and oceans we know ...

With dazzlingly realistic animation based on the latest ... survived and set the stage for a new dominant life form: the dinosaurs. How did Earth give rise to humans? With stunningly realistic ...

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 ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this ... Europe and northern Asia to form a large supercontinent called ...