For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of Earth 200 million years ago as Pangaea, the last supercontinent, began to break apart. The continents we live ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...