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Date: 200,000,000 AD Location: Earth Changing conditions are always a boost to evolution, and conditions will certainly change again. There will be other extinction events, both minor ones and mass ones. Novopangea will not remain whole for long. Within a few million years it will begin to break up into separate continents again. Each continent will once gain develop its own ecosystems and environments. New organisms will evolve to take advantage of them, taking forms and shapes the mind of a Human likely cannot imagine. Undoubtedly, the far future will be even wilder. The End

Date: 200,000,000 AD Location: Northern Novopangea Forest The region in the northwest of Novopangea is pounded by saturated onshore winds. The global circulation of the atmosphere brings constant westerlies to this part of the landmass, winds which travel over a vast surface of warm ocean, filling up with moisture as they go. Thick black clouds roll in from the sea and condense into liquid water as soon as they reach land. Sunlight is rarely seen here. Rain falls relentlessly from the overhead darkness, drenching everything below. With no mountain range to act as a windbreak, the rain-sodden region stretches hundreds of miles inland. Great

Date: 200,000,000 AD Location: Novopangea Rainshadow Desert Like a giant spinning top losing its momentum, Earth’s rotation has gradually slowed. Since 200 million AD began, this imperceptible deceleration has added an hour to Earth’s cycle and a day on the planet is now 25 hours long. Furthermore, the Sun’s luminosity has increased, leading to a rise in air temperature. As the hot Sun beats down on the surface waters of the Global Ocean, it warms up the superocean, leading to frequent and very strong hurricanes, increased by the fact that there are no separate continents to regulates these storms’ ferocity. The east

Date: 200,000,000 AD Location: The Global Ocean surrounding Novopangea The mass extinction that ended the time of 100 million AD did not just ravage life on land, life in the oceans was profoundly affected too. Active volcanoes filled the sky with ash and dust, cutting out the sunlight for months on end. Acid rain, formed by sulfur compounds belched out by volcanoes, fell continually into the oceans/seas. The lack of sunlight and the increase in acidity killed off the plankton in the surface waters and elf to a catastrophic collapse in the oceanic food chain. Typical fish-type Bony Fish – the dominant marine Vertebrate Animals for hun

Date: 200,000,000 AD Location: Novopangea Central Desert The planet has changed. It is 100 million years since the most recent mass extinction event that destroyed most of the life on Earth. The continents have continued to move, drive by the relentless processes of plate tectonics. Now, by 200 million AD, Earth presents quite a different face. The world has come full circle. For many millions of years, spanning much of the Permian and Triassic period, Earth had one mighty landmass, a supercontinent termed Pangea. Now, hundreds of millions of years later, the continents have once again come together, forming a new single, huge supercontinen

Date: 100,000,000 AD Location: Earth A black cloud reaches across the blue sky of the world. It is generated by volcanic convulsions in the subduction zone between the continents of Asia and Antarctica. Tall, jagged volcanoes erupt in huge explosions, sending pyroclastic flows – mixtures of gas and superheated rock – racing down the slopes, incinerating almost everything in their path. More volcanic activity blasts out along the western edge of the Asian continent and the northern edge of Africa. There, basaltic volcanoes throw up a continuous stream of black lava that creeps over the land. More and more lava spews from the moun

Date: 100,000,000 AD Location: The Great Northern Plateau Since the Eocene epoch of the Paleogene period, around 45 million BC, Australia became separated from Antarctica slowly north across the Southern Ocean and the Pacific Ocean towards Asia. Where the Australian and the Eurasian Plates met, one was pushed below the other, creating a subduction zone to the southeast of the Asian landmass. As the ocean lithosphere – the rigid outer layer of Earth – was drawn down into the mantle and melted, new magma was produced, resulting in large amounts of volcanic activity. Now, during the time of 100 million AD, Australia shot life a s a

Date: 100,000,000 AD Location: The Northern Antarctic Rainforest Antarctica no longer lies over Earth’s South Magnetic Pole. The Antarctic Plate has been moving northwards for around 100 million years, gradually creeping towards the southern edge of Asia. This tectonic plate has carried the continent out of the polar zone, through the temperate zone and across the southern desert belt. Hard as it is to imagine, Antarctica now lies partially in the tropics. The Antarctic Ice Sheet melted as soon as the landmass began to move into warmer latitudes. The continent’s northern portion’s now lies well within the tropical zone of

Date: 100,000,000 AD Location: The Bengal Swamp A number of the continents have traveled vast distances since the Quaternary. As massive raft of land which broke away from Africa along the Great Rift Valley has moved across what was the Indian Ocean and collided with the southernmost corner of Southeast Asia. As the two landmasses came together, a vast inland sea was created between them in the area that was once the Bay of Bengal. The massive forces created by the colliding tectonic plates buckled the landmass, giving rise to a volcanic mountain range along the line of fusion. Over time, the inland sea became almost entirely cut off from t

Date: 100,000,000 AD Location: The Northern Shallow Seas A warm global climate has caused the polar icecaps to melt and sea-levels to rise by around 330 feet more than in the Holocene epoch of the Quaternary period. Lower-lying parts of the continents are flooded and the oceanwaters have spread southwards from the Arctic Ocean and eastwards from the Atlantic Ocean. Vast tracts of northern Asia are now almost entirely underwater. The Northern Shallow Seas, which stretch across northern Europe and Asia, are punctuated by rocky islands – peaks of mountains not yet covered by water. The Sunlight-filled, nutrient-rich waters of the Norther