A photo of the earth and its oceans taken from space ... The Pacific Ocean stretches from the continents of Asia and Oceania on the east, to North and South America on the west.

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent ... around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents. The land masses continued to ...

The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and ...

On top of that, Wegener learned that related species, too small to swim the oceans, were found on different continents, as were similar fossils. In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know ...