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Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant ...

The breakup of Pangaea, the supercontinent that covered the planet before our continents looked like what they do now, has been somewhat of a controversy up until now. However, recently scientists ...

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 ...