Were all continents once snuggled together in a mammoth land mass surrounded ... and into Algeria (see map). To the east of the boundary lies the Pan-African region, dated as 550 million years ...

A map of the continents inspired ... amount of continental drift evidence to show that Earth's continents were once connected in a single supercontinent. Wegener knew that fossil plants and ...

Why do Africa and South America fit together? Anyone who’s ever looked at a map can see that Earth ... geologists thought land bridges had connected the continents, and were now submerged ...

But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected ... Zealand and Australia are often grouped together, they are not on the same continent.

and stick together to make larger continents," says Moresi. "We didn't really know the dynamics of this process, and didn't understand how the subduction zone recovers from the process of collision." ...

these maps show the world adrift, its landscapes breaking apart and reconnecting again in entirely new forms, where continents are as temporary as the island chains that regularly smash together ...

Thousands of years ago, a stretch of land connected the continents of Asia and North America ... has produced a map showing what Beringia looked like 18,000 years ago. At that time, much ...