The Pacific Ocean is disappearing, which will eventually lead to the emergence of a vast new supercontinent called Amasia, research suggests. Scientists in Australia and China believe the ocean is ...

This distribution reflects the last two supercontinent cycles over the past billion years, explained Luc Doucet, a senior research fellow in Earth and planetary sciences at Curtin University ...

One supercontinent lies under Africa, and the other resides deep under the Pacific Ocean. Using a new method to analyze data from earthquakes, researchers recently uncovered previously unknown ...

The food, the weather, the beaches… thousands of tourists flock to the Mediterranean Sea every year, and with good reason. In fact, for many, it would be unfathomable to imagine a world without ...

The researchers suggest that the buried supercontinent regions must also be made of much larger mineral grains than the buried subducted crust, which would explain the difference in the waves they ...

Among the enigmatic mantle lumps are two enormous "supercontinents" buried thousands of kilometres below the crust amid the remains of ancient tectonic plates. One supercontinent lies under Africa, ...

wangi could offer insights into the prevalence of the animal and its closest dinosaur relatives across Earth’s ancient supercontinent. “The paleobiodiversity of early sauropodomorphs from ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards ...

The land on Earth is made up of different pieces called continents. The whole world used to be joined in one supercontinent called Pangaea. The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called ...