Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, Earth’s land masses lay together in one supercontinent known as Pangea. Surrounded by a single ocean, known as Panthalassa, it saw the rise of the dinosaurs. Pangea was ...

Pangaea broke up in several phases between 195 million and 170 million years ago. The breakup began in the early Jurassic period , when the Central Atlantic Ocean opened, according to the chapter.

The last one, Pangea, formed around 320 million years ago and it broke up around 170 to 180 million years ago. And in 2022, researchers modeling the future of this cycle were able to predict how ...

On occasion, they formed supercontinents like Gondwana (circa 550 to 180 million) and Pangaea (circa 335 to 200 million years ago) that were surrounded by “superoceans.” ...

That supercontinent was called Pangea—also spelled Pangaea—and it was surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa. It started to break apart around 200 million years ago and eventually ...

About 335 million years ago Earth was dominated by one big landmass known as Pangaea, which began breaking up in the early Jurassic period. Ever since, the fragments, which we call continents ...

The last supercontinent that existed on Earth was called Pangea, and it split up roughly 200 million years ago. Earth’s continents are drifting now, and they could merge back together in 250 ...

A recent theory proposed that over the next 250 million years, Earth would evolve towards Pangea Ultima, a supercontinent so hot that mammals might become extinct.

In 1972, scientists wondered whether Pangaea was Earth’s only supercontinent. Fifty years later, we know it wasn’t the first and it won’t be the last.