"The coal deposits are essentially telling us that there was plentiful life on land," Murphy told Live Science. Climate models confirm that the continental interior of Pangaea was extremely seasonal, according to a 2016 article in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. read more
Pangaea existed 335 million years ago. The earliest human ancestor which we have identified and classified as a close relative of the “Homo” genus lived around 3.5 million years ago (though there is some evidence to push that timescale further back). There was certainly no human life on Pangaea. read more
About 300 million years ago, the seven continents formed one massive supercontinent called Pangaea. Here’s what we know about it. read more