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

Paleontologists have identified a new species, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, based on a fossilized jaw found in Late Triassic ...

These massive eruptions released vast amounts of sulfur dioxide, blocking sunlight and causing global cooling for a short ...

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.

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Even after the breakup of Pangaea approximately 200 million years ago, the signatures of geological processes persisted in ...

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 ...

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 ...