This phenomenon, called allopatric speciation, allowed unique species to arise on different continents. One example of this diversification is seen in the evolution of marsupials in what is now ...

"We can think of this as a planetary evolution question," Reimink said. "One of the key ingredients you need to make a planet like Earth might be the emergence of continents relatively early on in its ...

Mounded bacterial formations called stromatolites appear in shallow waters of the early oceans, and small land blocks collide with one another to produce the first continents. 3,800 mya ...