Paleontology

Paratethys - The world's largest lake
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Lake Paratethys: The Largest Lake That Ever Existed on Earth

The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth at 386,000 km² (149,000 mi²). Lake Paratethys, which existed twelve million years ago between the Alps and Kazakhstan, covered 2.8 million km², more than seven times that size. It held more water than every modern lake combined, had its own miniature whale species, and eventually broke apart into the Caspian, the Black Sea, and the Aral Sea.

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Map of the Central Pangean Mountains
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The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains

The Central Pangean Mountains were a great mountain chain in the middle part of the supercontinent Pangaea that stretches across the continent from northeast to southwest during the Carboniferous, Permian Triassic periods.

Read more: The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains
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Sundaland disappearing over 20,000 years

Sundaland is a biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia that encompasses the Sunda shelf, the part of the Asian continental shelf that was exposed during the last glacial period of the Pleistocene, from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. It was a large region that encompassed what is now the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and other surrounding islands in Southeast Asia.

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