Humans and other mammals may only exist for another 250 million years on Earth — which is about as long as mammals have existed here at all — according to a new study that predicts the continents will ...

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 the ...

The Argyle formation in Australia, which hosts 90% of the world's pink diamonds, formed when the first supercontinent broke up. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Earth's mass extinctions have come for the dinosaurs and a whopping 95 percent of ocean species. Mammals, like us, may be next — eventually. In intriguing new research published in the science journal ...

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From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, Earth was seemingly quite a boring place. Continents moved little, and life evolved excruciatingly slowly. Not much seemed to be going on, which is why ...

(CNN) — The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted. Using the first-ever supercomputer climate ...

Before Pangea, Earth may have been dominated by a supercontinent called Pannotia. Once considered a key piece in the puzzle ...