Scientists have uncovered that the continental divide between South America and Africa 135 million years ago unleashed 16 ...

Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like ...

New research has discovered that a continental breakup that took place 135 million years ago brought major destruction. The splitting of South America and Africa saw an outburst of 16 million ...

What was the evidence for Wegener’s theory? The match in shape between the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa suggests both were once part of a single continent (meaning ...

Imagine the altered continental geography and potential cultural exchanges if South America and Africa were joined together.

northern Nova Scotia is part of a micro-continent (Avaland) that was sandwiched during continental collision between North America and ... glacio-marine tillite (drift-ice deposit) related to the ...

Fossils, like those of Cynognathus—a wolf-sized reptile found in both Africa and South America—suggest that these continents were once joined before continental drift separated them.

You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa into Australia. If you want to try that today, you'd better buy some fins—you're in for the swim of a lifetime.