Supercontinent

What was once the floor of an ancient ocean is still shaping the landscape between Arabia and Eurasia.

Their fossils might be in the remnants of an ancient supercontinent.

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater.

Jan. 3, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.

The newly-discovered dinosaur species, Lishulong wangi, lies in the heart of the early sauropodomorph-sauropod transition, according to a paper published in the journal PeerJ.

As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth's history. Now, with nearly two decades of experience as a geologist, I think one of the best ways to understand our planet's history and evolution is by condensing the entire timeline into a single calendar year. It's not a new ...

A new genus and species of monofenestratan pterosaur has been identified from partial cranial and postcranial remains found in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina.

Fossils of the oldest saber-toothed predator are helping researchers understand the evolution of early mammal relatives called gorgonopsians and our shared origins in the therapsid group.

A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs...

Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they've now mapped the entirety of the underwater land mass.

The end-Triassic extinction along with the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous events are the most severe mass extinctions in the past 270 million years.

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.

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Fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina back in 2009 represent a new genus and species of plant-eating dinosaur that belonged to a group called Rebbachisauridae.

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

With one exception, a strong link between carbon dioxide and global temperatures.

Scientists have revealed how a "tag-team" between the oceans and continents millions of years ago devastated marine life—and altered the course of evolution on Earth.

A genetic analysis of Lyme disease bacteria may pave the way for improved diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the tick-borne ailment.