Researchers have uncovered evidence of what led to the Triassic-Jurassic extinction about 201.6 million years ago. ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.

Now, scientists at Columbia University say sudden freezing temperatures may be to blame. The causes of the End Triassic ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the breakup of Pangea led to an unexpected cooling event, paving the way for dinosaurs to thrive ...

Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years ... plants came along around 130 million years ago. Dr Russell Garwood of the ...

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 ...

Like many clichés, there is an element of truth to this comparison. The crocodiles from 200 million years ago look surprisingly like the ones we know today. But why have the modern crocodilians ...

and Pangaea, which formed about 335 million years ago and broke up about 200 million years ago. "What we observe today is basically what happened during the transition from Rodinia to Pangaea and ...