Imagine standing on solid ground that shifts beneath your feet, watching mountains crack open and oceans rush into new spaces. This wasn’t science fiction for our ancient planet. By the Late Triassic, Pangaea began to rift and break-up into northern Laurasia and southern Gondwana with the Central Pangean Mountains having practically disintegrated. The supercontinent finally ...
The story of dinosaurs is far more complex than towering beasts roaming prehistoric landscapes. The ancient supercontinent Pangaea began breaking apart approximately 200 million years ago, triggering one of the most significant evolutionary experiments in Earth’s history. This massive geological process, known as continental drift, created natural barriers that isolated dinosaur populations from one another, ...
The story of dinosaur evolution isn’t just written in bones and teeth – it’s etched into the very fabric of our planet’s crust. Dinosaur communities were separated by both time and geography, creating a vast natural experiment that shaped the most magnificent creatures ever to walk the Earth. What many people don’t realize is that ...
When we think of dinosaurs, we often picture massive creatures roaming vast landscapes. But what we don’t usually consider is how the very ground beneath their feet was constantly shifting, splitting continents apart, and creating new opportunities for evolution. Dinosaurs lived on all of the continents. At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during ...
Picture this: a massive Triceratops wandering through what’s now Antarctica, while Allosaurus hunted in the humid forests of modern-day Sahara Desert. Sounds impossible, right? But this isn’t science fiction – it’s the incredible reality of our planet’s past, when dinosaurs ruled a world that looked nothing like the one we know today. Back then, Earth’s ...
