Plate tectonics is the theory used to explain the structure of the Earth’s crust and many of the associated phenomena. The rigid lithosphere is split into 7 major ‘plates’ that slowly move on top of ...

WE really are one world, according to the findings of AlfredWegener, a guy who really knew his weather. Born on Nov. 1, 1880, in Germany, he received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Berlin ...

During our month of “What Ifs,” we’ve gone from doubling Earth to halving the Sun to everyone trying to jump at the same time, and we’re wrapping things up back at ground level: What if the ...

The outer layer of the Earth, the solid crust we walk on, is made up of broken pieces, much like the shell of a broken egg. These pieces, the tectontic plates, move around the planet at speeds of a ...

I’ve seen pictures of Pangaea, the giant landmass that eventually separated into the continents we know today. But why were the continents smushed together like that in the first place? What made the ...

I’ve seen pictures of Pangaea, the giant land mass that eventually separated into the continents we know today. But why were the continents smushed together like that in the first place? What made the ...

Fox's wildly popular prehistoric toon series shows no sign of extinction in "Ice Age: Continental Drift," an amusing, adds-nothing fourth chapter in which Manny and his woolly mammoth family find ...