Earth's continents are set to merge into a single landmass over the next 250 million years, an animation shows. The animation was posted Tuesday to Reddit, where it quickly gained over 3,500 comments ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

What does our collective future look like? Well, that depends on how far ahead you want to look. The first-ever supercomputer-generated continental-shift models are out, and the projections they share ...

THE complex problem of continental drift has everywhere been the subject of animated discussion in geological circles during recent years, and the publication of the papers presented at a symposium ...

Yale scientist David Evans will look both billions of years into the past and ahead into the near future in the next In the Company of Scholars talk on Tuesday, Feb. 11. David Evans at work. Titled ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...