What would you say if I would tell you we humans are really all Pangeians? Did you know that there was once one land mass on Earth not the continents of today and one day in the far future we will again be one supercontinent. The following is from a few sources but mainly from britannica.com:

"Pangea, also spelled Pangaea, in early geologic time, a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth. Pangea was surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa, and it was fully assembled by the Early Permian Epoch (some 299 million to about 273 million years ago). The supercontinent began to break apart about 200 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic Epoch (201 million to 174 million years ago), eventually forming the modern continents and the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Pangea’s existence was first proposed in 1912 by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener as a part of his theory of continental drift. Its name is derived from the Greek pangaia, meaning “all the Earth.”

Formation

The assembly of Pangea’s component landmasses was well underway by the Devonian Period (419.2 million to 358.9 million years ago) as the paleocontinents Laurentia (a landmass made up of the North American craton—that is, the continent’s stable interior portion) and Baltica (a landmass made up of the Eastern European craton) joined with several smaller microcontinents to form Euramerica. By the beginning of the Permian Period (298.9 million to 252.2 million years ago), the northwestern coastline of the ancient continent Gondwana (a paleocontinent that would eventually fragment to become South America, India, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica) collided with and joined the southern part of Euramerica (a paleocontinent made up of North America and southern Europe). With the fusion of the Angaran craton of Siberia to that combined landmass during the middle of the Early Permian, the assembly of Pangea was complete.

Geography

Pangea was C-shaped, with the bulk of its mass stretching between Earth’s northern and southern polar regions. The curve of the eastern edge of the supercontinent contained an embayment called the Tethys Sea, or Tethys Ocean. The Paleo-Tethys Ocean took shape during Pangea’s initial assembly phase. This ocean was slowly replaced by the Neo-Tethys Ocean after a strip of continental material known as the Cimmerian continent, or the Cimmerian superterrane, detached from northern Gondwana and rotated northward.

On the periphery of Pangea was Cathaysia, a smaller continent extending beyond the eastern edge of Angara and comprising the landmasses of both North and South China. Cathaysia lay within the western Panthalassic Ocean and at the eastern end of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Both oceans also contained scattered fragments of continental crust (microcontinents), basaltic volcanic island arcs, oceanic plateaus, and trenches. These island arcs and other isolated landmasses were later welded onto the margins of Pangea, forming accreted terranes (landmasses that collide with continents).

The assembly of the various large landmasses into the supercontinent led to the development of extensive dry climates in the supercontinent’s tropics during Permian times. As low-latitude seaways closed, warm surface ocean currents were deflected into much higher latitudes (areas closer to the poles), and cool-water upwelling developed along Pangea’s west coast. Extensive mountain-building events (or orogenies) occurred where the continents collided with one another, and the newly created high mountain ranges strongly influenced local and regional terrestrial climates. East-west atmospheric flow in the temperate and higher latitudes was disrupted by two high mountain chains—one in the tropics oriented east-west and one running north-south—that diverted warm marine air into higher latitudes.

These developments may have contributed to the series of extinction events that took place near the end of the Permian Period. Paleoecologists have posited that continental collisions eliminated several shallow-water marine basins—the primary habitat of most marine invertebrates—and Pangea’s north-south orientation, which drastically changed ocean circulation patterns, altered regional climates. In addition, by the end of the Permian Period, land largely prevented cooler waters near the poles from entering the Paleo-Tethys and Neo-Tethys basins, which may have raised water temperatures in shallow areas above the tolerance limits of corals and other organisms (see also Permian extinction).

Breakup

The mechanism for the breakup of Pangea is now explained in terms of plate tectonics rather than Wegener’s outmoded concept of continental drift, which simply stated that Earth’s continents were once joined together into the supercontinent Pangea that lasted for most of geologic time. Plate tectonics states that Earth’s outer shell, or lithosphere, consists of large rigid plates that move apart at oceanic ridges, come together at subduction zones, or slip past one another along fault lines. The pattern of seafloor spreading indicates that Pangea did not break apart all at once but rather fragmented in distinct stages. Plate tectonics also postulates that the continents joined with one another and broke apart several times in Earth’s geologic history.

The first oceans formed from the breakup, some 180 million years ago, were the central Atlantic Ocean between northwestern Africa and North America and the southwestern Indian Ocean between Africa and Antarctica. The South Atlantic Ocean opened about 140 million years ago as Africa separated from South America. About the same time, India separated from Antarctica and Australia, forming the central Indian Ocean. Finally, about 80 million years ago, North America separated from Europe, Australia began to rift away from Antarctica, and India broke away from Madagascar. India eventually collided with Eurasia approximately 50 million years ago, forming the Himalayas."

The following is from "factpros.com":

Pangea may reunite again in the future.
On the bases of the Supercontinent cycle, it is estimated that plate movements will form a new supercontinent about 250 million years in the future.

Scientists have already made a map depicting how would the future supercontinent look like during that period. It is pretty interesting. You may watch the illustration below.

Our instant generations will not know what would life be like on the new supercontinent, but we know for sure that our homes will not stay in the exact spot where they are standing now. The temperature will be different and we may even lose our favorite beaches."

I hope you found this as interesting as I did.

Reference: https://www.britannica.com/place/Pangea
Reference: https://factpros.com/interesting-facts-about-pangea/

Pangea may reunite again in the future."