Articles for tag: breakup of Pangaea, continental drift, dinosaur adaptation, dinosaur evolution, dinosaur fossil distribution, dinosaur migration, dinosaurs and geology, Mesozoic ecosystems, plate tectonics dinosaurs, prehistoric geography

Fossil Detectives Solve Ancient Mysteries

Dinosaurs on the Move: Tracking Continental Drift and Evolution

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 ...

The Rise of Laurasia and Gondwana

Continental Drift: The Hidden Force Behind Dinosaur Evolution

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, ...