An incredible effort has been made to map the mystery missing continent of Zealandia which was only recently discovered ...

The world still holds mysteries, even the size of continents. And sometimes, the greatest discoveries are the ones we were never quite sure existed.

For decades, paleontologists have believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in the southern parts of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, specifically in what is now Argentina. This theory was ...

The great supercontinent of Gondwana was headed steadily northward, away from the South Pole, and a second supercontinent began to form that straddled the Equator. Known as Euramerica, or ...

But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing taking over the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana? That argument was never truly settled. Most scientists ...

Reconstruction through time (top) showing the Indian Plate breaking away from the Gondwana supercontinent and subducting under Asia, thereby helping to create the world's highest topography ...

Imagine stepping onto a land that’s been a relic of a world long past. Madagascar, often hailed as the world’s oldest island, ...

The animation, which you control using your mouse, shows the breakup of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana from 150 million years ago to the present, and on to a (speculative) 50 million years ...

Most of the world's landmasses came together to create the supercontinent of Gondwana, which included the continents of Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia. Gondwana drifted south ...

Dolphins play in the cool waters here, while the ferns that deck the dense forest have changed little since it was part of the Gondwana supercontinent 80 million years ago. Arriving by sea into ...

The geopark provides evidence of the formation of Zealandia, which broke away from the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana around 80 million years ago. The continent then became submerged under the ...

Some had speculated that the lizards reached the islands via land bridges as the southern supercontinent, Gondwana, splintered. Others had posited that the iguanas floated on “rafts” of tree ...