Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to exist, with Rodinia and Columbia (also known as Nuna) coming before it. A huge landmass called Gondwana also existed before becoming part of Pangaea ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...