Miles beneath the ocean there are numerous sunken lands just waiting to be discovered. How did these lost lands form, and ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

A continent is drifting towards Asia at a surprising speed and the inevitable collision will impact the natural world as we know it, one expert warns ...

To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ...

Its very real, that's the same speed that our finger nails grow each year. "We believe that the Earth evolves in a cyclic pattern, where the continents move apart and now are moving back together.

The splitting of Africa isn’t an isolated event; continents have drifted apart and re-merged at least three times throughout Earth’s history. This endless cycle of drift and collision ...