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Evidence That Occur In The 20th Century

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In the 20th century, there was a scientist named Alfred Wegener, who came up with a theory that all the continents were one single continent, mostly known as the Continental drift. There was plenty of evidence to prove that this actually happened. Look at the eastern coastline of South America and the western coastline of Africa. Does it look like it fits kind of like a jigsaw puzzle? If so, they might've been connected tougher at some point. Even the fossils found there are evidence of this happening. If you look the image here, you see that the fossils line up toge- ther. None of them were good swimmers so they couldn’t swam thousands of miles. Another piece of evidence would be the mountain ranges in North America and Europe (as shown here)

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