By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...

During this time, all continents were one, also known as Pangea. The Triassic spanned 50.5 million years and followed the Permian extinction, also known as The Great Dying. This is when the ...

Slowly, this giant continent, called Pangaea, broke apart and spread to form the continents we know today. The Triassic period was a unique episode in Earth’s ecological history, and it began on ...

All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic ...

About 200 million years ago, during a period known as the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Pangaea started to crack. North America separated from Europe; South America from Africa. As they parted ...