Scientists from the Ocean University of China have reconstructed Earth’s plate tectonics over the past 1.8 billion years.

They’ve condensed this vast timeline into an animation just one minute long! The animation showcases the movement of continents over nearly half of our planet’s history.

Around 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Gondwana merged with North America, Europe, and Northern Asia to form the supercontinent Pangaea. Both Pangaea and Gondwana were composed of even older tectonic plates. The reconstruction then reveals the even earlier supercontinent Rodinia, which formed from the ancient supercontinent Nuna around 1.35 billion years ago.

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