New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

At the end of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic periods, Pangea began to break up, eventually forming the continents we ... with observations not seen before." Dr Kate Rychert added ...

A new study from the University of Houston could change the way we understand how lakes were formed.Aibing Li, a UH seismologist and co-author of the ...

Researchers previously believed the fissure would split the continent ... long before humans roamed, Earth was home to just one supercontinent known as Pangaea. But scientists believe that about ...

This was many millions of years before the first modern humans ... and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called ...

According to the University, the mainstream belief is that dinosaurs first spread to Laurasia, the northern part of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea, millions of years after emerging in Gondwana, ...

the northern part of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea, millions of years after emerging in Gondwana, the southern portion of the continent, but a newly discovered species found in North ...

The discovery suggests the process began hundreds of millions of years ago, before the supercontinent Pangaea began to separate ... the effects of an ancient hotspot that was once inside a continent ...