In fact, the continent is drifting at around 2.8 inches (7cm) per year which is comparable to the rate our fingernails grow.

Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like ...

We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting continent collided with another, causing it to crumple and fold. For example, the Himalayas ...

Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental drift" looked less ludicrous than his contemporaries had thought. There still seemed to be no way that continents could plow through the earth's surface on ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy, will one day divide the continent into two separate landmasses. While this ...