Earth only has so much space. Over time, the continents have merged and divided on countless occasions. Accordingly, over the past 4.5 billion years, our globe has changed pretty dramatically—and it ...

TOWN OF RAMAPO, N.Y- a billion years ago, or so the prevailing geological theory has it, the Earth’s continental plates collided, pushing up mountains the height of the Himalayas and creating a ...

EARTH may have had huge continents that “melted away” billions of years before our current continents existed. The so-called “lost continents” are said to have risen up out of the sea before being ...

Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests. Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 ...

A new geological study has revealed that the mostly submerged continent of Zealandia is far older than previously estimated — dating back over a billion years. The research, published in the journal ...