Evidence of continental drift is the matching coastlines of continents in our modern world. The continents were parts of Pangaea and broke into smaller pieces called continents.. Today these continents are commonly known to us as Australia, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, North America and South America. Alfred Wegener, a German Meteorologist and geophysicist created the theory that all of the continents were once connected together. Alfred discovered this whilst studying the coastlines of different countries and realising that the coastlines can actually connect together like a jigsaw puzzle. His theory was that the continents were floating or drifting on a denser material below the Earth’s surface. His theory proposed that the continents were breaking apart and re-joining in a process that he called continental drift. This theory not accepted during his time and it was harshly criticized but in our time now the theory is the most accepted theory on how the continents were formed.