While the Google Doodle illustrates the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum — with notes that reflect Ortelius’s compendium of data, names of scientists, theories, and even sea monsters — a closer look at the ...

Alfred Wegener was the first to offer evidence that our continents were once one great land mass. WE really are one world, according to the findings of Alfred Wegener, a guy who really knew his ...

The Continental Drift Theory, proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, explains that all continents were once part of a supercontinent called Pangaea, which later broke apart and drifted to their present ...

Plate tectonics is the theory used to explain the structure of the Earth’s crust and many of the associated phenomena. The rigid lithosphere is split into 7 major ‘plates’ that slowly move on top of ...

During our month of “What Ifs,” we’ve gone from doubling Earth to halving the Sun to everyone trying to jump at the same time, and we’re wrapping things up back at ground level: What if the ...

WE really are one world, according to the findings of AlfredWegener, a guy who really knew his weather. Born on Nov. 1, 1880, in Germany, he received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Berlin ...