A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break up.

Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded to break up, forming the continents we know today. Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent ...

Even after Pangaea broke up, these signatures persisted ... Why supercontinents break up isn't entirely understood, but it is thought to involve hot mantle material rising from deep mantle regions ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...