In fact, the continents are likely in a slow-motion supercontinent cycle — with massive landmasses repeatedly converging, breaking apart, and converging once again. "We could end up with six or ...

Earth has undergone a supercontinent cycle for billions of years, with landmasses colliding and separating roughly every 600 million years. Researchers used advanced supercomputer simulations to ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Most of the world's landmasses came together to create the supercontinent of Gondwana, which included the continents of Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia. Gondwana drifted south ...