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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 ...

Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant ...

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 ...