Pangaea was the last of the supercontinents, a mass of land that came together and broke itself apart several times before.
So Pangaea-- this is that picture again.
possible and while the panga project was so much fun uh to do that was just me in
And Paul Pangaro, who is a cyberneticist and a professor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, has just rebuilt The Colloquy of Mobiles
would have been Pangaea in lava at the end of the Triassic.
it was the Pangaea project or today, we don't have focus groups, we don't have rooms full of MBAs, when we decide to do a project we just decide to do it ourselves and often times
period on the supercontinent of Pangaea. But this was not an easy thing for these first dinosaurs to do because they had a lot of competition from the animals that were living with them. But they also
B-list actors in this Pangaea drama, a drama that was headlined by the crocs and the giant
And almost as soon as Pangaea had formed, it started tearing itself apart again.
This is the height of Pangaea, when all of the continents were united together.
Things are getting kind of weird in Pangaea.
So some people think that the Pangaea was actually a really miserable time for life
A few extinctions actually happened while Pangaea is together.
which has become known as Pangaea.
Our behavior, software." And it's Paul Pangaro who made the contemporary Colloquy of Mobiles.
These days, I find myself blaming Pangaea for the sounds I cannot hear.
And you sometimes hear this phrase that biologists use that we are creating the new Pangaea.
Out in Sri Lanka-- that's where we did some of this research-- we had to hop on these little Panga boats, really
like two puzzle pieces that fit together because they once were together, and then Pangaea broke apart. And the Earth bled lava, and it was a time of major volcanic eruptions all across what is now
had slid into a single great landmass, a supercontinent called Pangaea, the all land.
philanthropy to leverage more mainstream capital. We discovered that at the village or pangayat level where an
I made a song on tobacco called "Life Se Panga ."
were kept in check by the weather, by the climate. When it comes to the physical environment, Pangaea was not an easy place to live, not at all. This enormous supercontinent was so big
other groups that had also survived that terrible extinction at the end of the Permian. And some of those groups were amphibians. The rivers and the lakes of Pangaea were ruled by salamanders, the
size of cars, with enormous heads with thousands of teeth. There were crocodiles and their relatives living all across Pangaea, and some of them were meat eaters, some of them were plant
Cretaceous, and I'm talking between about 80 million years ago and about 66 million years ago, by that time, the continents had moved around so much that Pangaea was a distant memory, and a map
When dinosaurs got their start, and during the first many tens of millions of years of the history of dinosaurs, all the land was gathered together. It was Pangaea that could move quite
The mountain range here was crumpled up in the previous cycle of supercontinent building-- plate tectonics, a whole chapter before Pangaea and the last one
a picture of dinosaurs and da,da,da,da, before continental drift there was the one super continent and that gave us the inspiration to do a beer called Pangaea. I was stuck in
the idea for this Urkontinent which is kind of a word that I think has more Germanic history and uses but it essentially also means Pangaea, is I think an earlier word that predates it
we wanted to do with this project. So then moving into the project itself, basically we try to make this as iterative and open as possible. And while the Pangaea project