Australia is the world's fastest-moving continent, shifting north at about 2.8 inches per year. This movement results from ...

Cool huh? Yeah. But what's really cool is that it's not over yet. Even as you read this, whole continents are moving. Right? Click here and see.

Only recently, scientists mapped the hidden continent of Zealandia located in the Southern Ocean. Africa's split "will be just another move in this giant geological playbook," said IFL Science.

"Plate tectonics and the Pangea supercontinent suggest that continents move and break up over (extremely long) periods of time due to convection from the decay of radioactive elements in the ...

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3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...