The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

Antarctica, a land of frozen mystery, holds secrets hidden beneath its thick ice sheets. One such secret is a colossal mountain range, the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, which has puzzled scientists ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

Gondwana is a former supercontinent that broke off from the landmass of Pangea about 180 million years ago. It included South America, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. About 140 million years ago ...

Based on the results from this computer simulation, the team believes that Earth’s earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot and dry equatorial region in the former supercontinent Gondwana.

By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved in the dry savannahs and hot deserts of the ancient supercontinent ...

Evidence showed that dinosaurs originated in the southern part (Gondwana) of the supercontinent and headed to the northern half (Laurasia) over millions of years, before the infamous asteroid ...