Continental drift. The movement of mainlands on the planet Earth in different periods from 250 MYA to Present. Vector illustration of Pangaea, Laurasia, Gondwana, modern continents in flat style ...
Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent ...
the widely accepted theory was that they emerged in the southern part of the ancient continent of Pangea over 200 million years ago, and only spread northward millions of years later. A new study ...
Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent, called Pangaea. Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart ...
Over millions of years, tectonic plates moved and broke Pangea up into the continents we know today, but they're still moving. Tectonic movement causes things like earthquakes and volcanoes.
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.