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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.