As far as immutable facts go, the number of continents would seem to be one of them, but is there another continent hiding in ...

The shallow, warm oceans were filled with plesiosaurs ... together with the different segments of Gondwana and Laurasia, started to separate the two continents. By the end of the Cretaceous ...

Katie Nadworny is an Istanbul-based writer who specializes in stories at the intersection of culture and politics in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. She has lived in Turkey for nearly ...

Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ... with a brand-new ocean forming in between. How slow is “slow”?

In this version of Earth's continents, there was one universal ocean. After 50 million years of Pangea, it broke apart again, this time into two masses known as Gondwanaland and Laurasia.

The process starts slowly at first, with the formation of Laurasia and Gondwanaland ... If we could drain all the oceans, you would see that all the continents on the planet actually stretch ...

When the supercontinent Pangaea split into the northern continent Laurasia and the southern continent Gondwana approximately 195 million years ago, the ocean plate was formerly the seafloor of ...

Laurasia, and a southern continent, Gondwana about 195 million years ago. Though Neotethys closed up more than 20 million years ago, the oceanic crust that used to underpin it is still affecting ...

While it was a vast landmass, it wasn’t just one giant chunk of land – it was split into several regions that would eventually evolve into the continents ... Laurasia from the southern supercontinent, ...

There is a ravishing kind of beauty in Tommaso Santambrogio’s lyrical triptych of contemporary Cuban life, “Oceans Are the Real Continents.” With black and white cinematography that ...

Tommaso Santambrogio’s film, which stakes out territory in both truth and fantasy, uses nonactors to tell intertwining stories set in contemporary Cuba. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ...