How do fossils help explain continental drift (that tectonic plates move)?
lol. ok… I’m not sure how technical you want me to be on this – (including names and locations of fossils found e.t.c.). But as I know there were some very similar fossils found at really differentiated locations for example on the west coast of africa with the same fossils at south america. these fossils wer found no where else in the world Generally, species on different continents evolve in different ways, leading to different types of things on different continents. If you are looking at a fossil record for two different continents and they have the same species at the same time, it is very likely that this species was alive on both continents and was able to move between the continents. Some species that we see in the fossil record on continents that are very far apart can be pieced together at certain times when their fossil record crosses and show that certain continents used to be connected.
