The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of ...

Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. The giant ocean called Panthalassa surrounded Pangaea. Areas near the coast were pummeled by seasonal monsoons, but ocean-circulation patterns kept ...

We have heard of the supercontinents Pangea and Gondwana when the present continents were linked together as one land mass. The supercontinent Pangea broke into pieces 175 million years ago ...

At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated. Laurasia, the northern half, broke up into North America and Eurasia. Gondwana, the southern half ...

During the Jurassic Period, the single land mass, Pangaea, split into two, creating Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. Despite this separation, similarities in their fossil records show ...

Before Pangea, there was another supercontinent called Gondwana. This eventually collided with other big continents to form Pangea. As Gondwana broke up and disintegrated, a small continent was ...