fossil evidence, matching rock types and geologic structures, and evidence of ancient climate patterns. But Wegener could not come up with an acceptable way to explain how the continents moved.

It took more than 50 years for Wegener’s theory to be accepted ... There are similar fossils on both sides of the Atlantic – including the fossil remains of land animals that would have ...

Fossils of Ambulocetus, found in ancient estuary sediments ... and Antarctica support the theory of continental drift, indicating these lands were once connected. Some species exhibit little ...

Of course, fossils up a mountain are not evidence ... a development from the continental drift theory first proposed in the 1920s. At the summit of Mount Everest, for example, there is the ...

But it took years to prepare the fossils and analyze the finds. The newly identified species' scientific name means "ancient fish ... with faster rates of continental drift, even more so than ...