Biology

What Would Have Happened If You Had Lived 200 million Years Ago?

Imagine you got into a time machine and travelled back 200 million years in time. The world today is very different from the one back then. Humans had not yet colonized the earth, and most of the plants and animals that exist today had not yet evolved. The Late Triassic period was one of great geological and biological change. After almost 90% of life on Earth had been exterminated during the Permian-Triassic extinction event, life was coming out.

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Imagine you got into a time machine and travelled back 200 million years in time.

What Would Have Happened If You Had Lived 200 million Years Ago?

The Terrain of Earth: A Supercontinent

About 200 million years ago, the continents of Earth were not configured as they are today. Instead, most of the landmasses of the planet were joined together to form a single supercontinent called Pangaea. This landmass surrounded the vast ocean called Panthalassa and covered nearly half of the Earth's surface. The temperature and topography of the Earth's climate would have been completely different.

The Pangaea supercontinent was slowly breaking apart, a process that would take millions of years and result in the formation of the continents as we know them today.