He noticed the continents appeared to fit together, almost perfectly, like a jigsaw puzzle. And if they used to fit together, that means they must have somehow moved apart.

THE world's ultimate jigsaw puzzle will be missing a couple of pieces when it is next put together. A Pangaea-like supercontinent is forecast to form in 250 million years, but a new model predicts ...

The biggest jigsaw puzzle in the solar system has a split personality: The number and sizes of Earth's tectonic plates can flip, according to a new study. Today, the pieces of Earth's broken shell ...

It’s as if a large chunk of your jigsaw puzzle had two possible pieces for every spot. Things got so bad that geologists even conjured up different elaborate permutations of Pangaea to try to ...

Unlike on every other rocky planet in the solar system, Earth’s surface is a giant jigsaw puzzle whose pieces are constantly on the move. Each puzzle piece is a tectonic plate, tremendous ...

The study, in the journal Gondwana Research, provides a clearer understanding of how plate tectonics move continents, cause earthquakes and tsunami, and provide better clues about possible ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...

Researchers in London recently announced that a giant “archaeological puzzle” has been solved, revealing artwork that’s been ...

Plate tectonics describes how Earth’s entire, 100-kilometer-thick outermost layer, called the lithosphere, is broken into a jigsaw puzzle of plates — slabs of rock bearing both continents and ...

The geological maps show Zealandia has some similar geology to West Antarctica. It fit together like a jigsaw puzzle - suggesting they used to be attached millions of years ago.

The biggest jigsaw puzzle in the solar system has a split personality: The number and sizes of Earth's tectonic plates can flip, according to a new study. Today, the pieces of Earth's broken shell ...