The presence of the same species' fossils on separate continents can be explained by the hypothesis of continental drift, where tectonic plates slowly move over geological time. Alternatively, it may suggest that the species were able to disperse across land bridges or shallow seas that existed during periods of lower sea levels, allowing for their spread before the current oceanic barriers formed.
Fossils of the same life form species have been found on continents that are now divided by oceans. In one to two sentences, explain how this could be possible if a supercontinent did not exist.
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