On top of that, Wegener learned that related species, too small to swim the oceans, were found on different continents, as were similar fossils. In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know ...

According to some scientists, fossil evidence clearly shows a decline ... According to many scientists, continental drift and ocean regression would have caused continents to become drier, cooler ...

This is understandable, given that knowledge about the Earth's tectonic plates was formed during a period when we also discovered fossil fuel reserves offshore from continental shelves.

There are similar fossils on both sides of the Atlantic – including the fossil remains of land animals that would have been unable to swim across from one side to the other.

In their latest study that analyses fossil pollens before the boundary, the team put to rest the idea that Deccan volcanism, was the sole cause of the shift in plant life — from gymnosperm ...

Fossils, like those of Cynognathus—a wolf-sized reptile found in both Africa and South America—suggest that these continents were once joined before continental drift separated them.