Question: What evidence first indicated to scientists that the continents were once connected? Need Assignment Help? View Available Hint(s)for Part A The apparent jigsaw-like fit of continents together, as in the case of South America and Africa The evidence of past isthmian links that allowed land animals to reach other landmasses across the ocean Deformed igneous rocks in Brazil that highly resembled similar rocks in Africa The distribution of coal from tropical swamps of the past among North America, Europe, northern Africa, and Asia The presence of Glossopteris on fossils on five different continents