The Day India Broke Away: What Really Happened to Pangaea? 🧐🧐 #youtube #history #dinosaur #india

250 million years ago you could walk from India to Antarctica without getting your feet wet. Almost all the land on Earth was one supercontinent: Pangaea. How did a whole planet's land end up in one piece? Why did it tear itself apart? And how did a group of small, forgettable reptiles end up inheriting it? Deserts the size of continents, a megamonsoon, the worst mass extinction we know of, a rain that lasted a million years, a volcanic winter, India's record-breaking sprint into Asia, and the three fossil clues that proved Alfred Wegener right. Deep Time, episode 1. Next episode: the last day of the dinosaurs. Chapters 0:00 Cold open: walking from India to Antarctica 1:22 How Pangaea came together 2:44 Life on one supercontinent 3:49 The Great Dying 5:34 The first dinosaurs 6:20 The rain that lasted a million years 7:28 The second extinction 9:07 Pangaea breaks up: India's sprint and the Himalayas 10:14 Wegener and the three clues 12:16 What comes next About the visuals: some scenes in this video are AI reconstructions based on the scientific evidence. The globe and map animations are made from a published plate-tectonic model (Merdith et al. 2021). Future-continent positions are one model, not a prediction. #pangaea #supercontinent #gondwana #india #antarctica #continentaldrift #platetectonics #AlfredWegener #GreatDying #PermianExtinction #triassicperiod #CarnianPluvialEpisode #FirstDinosaurs #lystrosaurus #Glossopteris #Mesosaurus #himalayas #IndiaPlate #deeptime #earthhistory #prehistoricearth #documentary #unitedstates #youtubeshorts #youtube #history #dinosaur #jurrasicworldthegame