Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

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 made ...

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 ...

The world's largest iron ore deposits formed when the ancient supercontinent Columbia broke up around 1.4 billion years ago, a new study suggests. The deposits, located in what is now Hamersley ...

Australia’s Hamersley region uncovers a massive $5.7 trillion iron ore deposit, rewriting geology with its 1.4 ...

Gorgonopsians are now extinct, but 270 to 250 million years ago they were furless, earless, dog-like, saber-toothed super predators stalking the ancient supercontinent of Pangea. In the past ...

The discovery highlights the importance of luck in scientific exploration and adds to our understanding of prehistoric life on the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. | Published Feb. 20 | Read More ...