| The hundred million years and more of Pangean history saw a succession of cosmopolitan animal dynasties spread over the entire supercontinent. |
| Amalgamation of the late Palaeozoic supercontinent Pangaea led to the collision of Gondwana with Laurasia forming the Variscan orogen. |
| If the past pattern holds, Dr Rogers predicts that a new supercontinent will be formed in about 500m years' time. |
| Recent palaeomagnetic and geodynamic constraints envisage an early Mesoproterozoic supercontinent that at least included Laurentia and Baltica. |
| When New Zealand split away from the supercontinent Gondwana some 80 million years ago, its flora and fauna were left to develop in isolation. |
| About 500m years later, its pieces reassembled to form yet another supercontinent, called Rodinia. |
