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 ...

Throughout each era, Earth’s appearance underwent significant changes, with Pangaea being the most ... to 358 million years ago) brought Gondwana and Laurasia closer, contributing to the Late ...

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 ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

Lush vegetation grew in the Jurassic Period, providing plenty of food for plant-eating dinosaurs, such as this Stegosaurus During the Jurassic Period, the single land mass, Pangaea, split into two, ...